The
NA vice-speaker Vahan Hovhannisian continues his dispute with next NA vice-speaker
Tigran Torosian.ARF took part in the elaboration of CIC model law about
fight against terror. Yesterday the vice-speaker Vahan Hovhannisian detailed in
his interview how it had happened. In the session of CIC inter-Parliamentary
conference where the secretary ARF fraction Hrair Karapetian took part, the Azerbaijani
representatives tried to put into the draft the conceptions of separatism and
extremism during the discussions of the law on fight against terrorism. Hrair
Karapetian declared in his speech that they shouldn’t confuse these two conceptions:
" The separatism isn’t always directed by terrorism and connected with extremism.
It is so not only in NK but also in Kvebek, Italy, Belgium." The Azerbaijanis
attempted the same during the discussions of the commission on civic issues in
which sitting Vahan Hovhannisian took part. In his opinion they managed to explain
their colleague: "The separatism is an aim, the terrorism is a method and
these two mustn’t be put in one sentence. Since the separatism is a natural aspiration
of the people."Taking an opportunity we asked Vahan Hovhannisian for
explanations about discrepancy between two vice-speakers around the activities
of Armenian delegation in PACE. Tigran Torosian returning to Vahan Hovhannisian’s
affirmation that the chief of our delegation wouldn’t take part in Atkinson’s
report with his suggestions had said: " The authority isn’t a club of self-
activities where everybody does what he wants" and had detailed that all
steps had been done round the preliminary project by the approval of the country’s
high leadership: "If Mr. Hovhannisian has turned to anyone with his suggestions
then he has to muster his courage to direct his displeasure to the same address.
If he hasn’t that arrogance is meaningless." We were interested had he turned
to or not and also in the suggestion of boycotting the January session of PACE
where the resolution project on NK issue would be discussed. "First of all
I don’t like the offended and fierce manners in political discussions, – Vahan
Hovhannisian said about his colleague’s answer. "I have never suggested in
boycotting the works in PACE or in any international instances. I have simply
said that we had warned and made well-grounded suppositions about the general
characters of the report before. Our aim would be the depreciation of that report.
But we were told at that time: how can you offend Mr. Atkinson or Device, why
do you speak about their oil interests? But we were right as we saw what had happened.
Besides it was told why we hadn’t spoken about it before. Because the work system
is allowed us to see the text of the report only after its declaration in the
PACE commission of political issues. So if we didn’t have that text before we
shouldn’t take part in its discussion."In Vahan Hovhannisian’s opinion
Atkinson’s report is worse than Device’s report. But Tigran Torosian mentioned
it was just the opposite. "I was right, said our interlocutor, – It is offered
the Azerbaijanis to negotiate with the representatives of Karabakh political forces
in Device’s report but everything is converted in Atkinson’s report, there is
spoken about some equal communities. That is what we must avoid at any cost."Anna
IsraelianP.S. By the way, Mr. Hovhannisian announced a notable observation:
"The anti Russian dispositions develop indeed in the Armenian community and
it doesn’t happen without any reason: there are deep and superficial reasons for
it."
