“A rather heated and interesting discussion on withdrawing Vartan Oskanian’s immunity is taking place in the National Assembly. The heat and the logic of discussions are natural, because in the end, everyone wants to understand who is right. However, one should prove
that ‘who is right?’ neither with speeches, nor questions and discussions, nor reminding about some things from the past or saying things about the present or the future. One should that he is right and correct in legal proceedings,” Margarit Yesayan, a Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) MP, said during a conversation with www.aravot.am. In her words, “I hope and want to be hopeful that Vartan Oskanian will prove his innocence in a legal proceeding. I think that the application filed by the Attorney General aims at that very thing, because if the application is passed and Mr. Oskanian’s immunity is withdrawn, it doesn’t mean at all that Mr. Oskanian will be arrested. It is a completely different story and the attorney’s office must file another application.”
When asked whether she agreed with the assessment of Naira Zohrabyan, the secretary of the Prosperous Armenia Party (PAP) parliamentary group, that they had witnessed such an attitude regularly after their last congress, Margarit Yesayan said, “No, I don’t agree, because I have always been against politicizing legal issues. If it is said today that the issue is politicized, I myself don’t see it. We saw in the hall today that there is a problem, nonetheless. It is not that everything is fine and the attorney’s office suddenly files an application. I repeat once again I am hopeful that Mr. Oskanian will prove that he is innocent in a legal proceeding. I just want it to be so. I think that first of all, the attorney’s office and the legal system have things to do here. If they appear before the National Assembly with such an accusation, they must have sufficient evidence to do so. Otherwise they will lose this.”
Hripsime JEBEJYAN
