ZHARANGUTIUN PARTY OFFICE AGAIN VACATED AND SEALED
Noyan Tapan
Armenians Today
May 31 2006
YEREVAN, MAY 31, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. In the midday of May
31 when Raffi Hovhannisian, Zharangutiun (Heritage) party Chairman,
RA former Foreign Minister, and his colleagues were working at their
offices, the party’s central office was surrounded and a group of 10
employees of RA Justice Ministry’s Service of Obligatory Execution of
Judicial Acts in uniforms entered the office. “An unprecedented turn
not subject to any regularity happened: against the April 14 court
decision prohibiting to carry out any action in the territory rented by
Hovhannisian and towards the property of the office, the executors of
the above-mentioned ministry led by Vahram Yenokian and accompanied by
“chief evictor” of Yerevan Tigran Tadevosian, forcibly made the party
employees vacate the territory and again sealed all the doors of the
Zharangutiun’s central office,” the party report read. Hovhannisian
and his staff had nothing else to do but to leave the territory they
had been renting for 12 years, where they had entered in accordance
with the court decision and execution of this decision by the same
Service of Obligatory Execution of Judicial Acts on May 29, about
3 months after its first closure. In the official report made by
Yenokian and his subordinates Raffi Hovhannisian registered: “The
Service of Obligatory Execution of Judicial Acts led by Mr Yenokian
and with the presence of Mr Tadevosian, forcibly evicts us from
the territory we had rented for 12 years in a legal and civilized
way. This action is illegal, unfair and does not proceed either from
the decision of the court or from justice in general. This regular,
though small anti-constitutional action of our country is done by
pressure and against my will.” In connection with the opening of his
office inspiring some hopes and its official closure after 24 hours
Hovhannisian strictly condemned “the policy aimed at spreading fear
all over the republic, the atmosphere of all-round lawlessness and
arbitrariness” and promised together with his fellow-citizens to
“continue to struggle for the sake of law and dignity predetermined
by the party.”