IRAVUNK NEWSPAPER’S NEXT ISSUE TO BE PUBLISHED IN TIME, HRANT KHACHATRIAN PROMISES
Noyan Tapan
Feb 21 2007
YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 21, NOYAN TAPAN. "By the direct instruction of the
oligarch-criminal system, on the pretext of giving a judicial solution
to allegedly disputable issues connected with the founder of Iravunk
newspaper, Constitutional Law Union (CLU) Party, through obvious
judicial retribution, the Iravunk newspaper’s activity was actually
liquidated." This was mentioned in the statement of CLU Iravunk
official newspaper’s editorial staff signed by Hayk Babukhanian, as
well as Hovhannes Galajian and some other employees of the newspaper.
According to the statement, Iravunk’s editorial office was seized
through a brigand attack, "on behalf of the law," criminal elements
broke into the rooms of newspaper’s editorial staff and seized the
newspaper’s entire property."
The newspaper’s editorial staff mentioned that they had to stop
publishing Iravunk.
However, as CLU founder Hrant Khachatrian declared in his interview to
Noyan Tapan correspondent, these false accusations secure the agitation
of intra-party coup. In his words, the coup was being carried out
for liquidating party’s control over its official newspaper and for
making it serve for personal or group purposes.
"The self-promoting leaders of editorial staff and party left
the office on February 20 taking almost the whole property and
documents with them. Now the office is ruined, but the activities
have been already organized," H. Khachatrian said. In his words,
Iravunk’s editorial staff has partly changed and Piruza Meliksetian
was appointed as the new editor-in-chief. It was also mentioned that
Iravunk’s next issue will be published on coming Friday.