Samvel Farmanyan, a member of the Republican Party parliamentary group, wrote a status update on his personal page on Facebook, in which he asked the Prosperous Armenia Party questions. He raises a question, “In which issues one can notice the alternativeness of the PAP? If it is the case, it should manifest itself in a field, which is so much talked about, discussed and criticized – I mean the foreign policy of the Republic of Armenia. In order to prove its political alternativeness at least in terms of this, the Prosperous Armenia Party must eventually put forward in an organized manner its position on the following pivotal issues of foreign policy and security policy concerning our state.”
The Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) MP is interested in the position of the PAP on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, relations between the Republic of Armenia and the Russian Federation, the Republic of Armenia and the United States of America, the Republic of Armenia and Turkey, military strategic and security priorities of Armenia, conflicts in the region, integration processes in the post-Soviet area. www.aravot.am tried to get answers to the questions asked by S. Farmanyan from Naira Zohrabyan, the secretary of the PAP parliamentary group. Ms. Zohrabyan said, “We are very busy with discussions on the budget right now. When we have free time, we will be glad to invite Samvel Farmanyan to our parliamentary group and answer all of his questions in detail over a cup of coffee or tea.” In response to our question whether S. Farmanyan had to wait for a long time, Ms. Zohrabyan said the following, “When we have time.” Tigran Urikhanyan, the PAP press secretary, was not aware of S. Farmanyan’s questions. Mr. Urikhanyan explained that he had no reason to read others’ personal pages on Facebook. When we communicated a few questions raised by the RPA MP, T. Urikhanyan said, “The answers to those questions have been given lots of times. Frankly speaking, I don’t understand what those questions mean, if there are questions, which he is not aware of; those questions have been answered lots of times. Those opinions have been expressed lots of times.”
In response to our question whether the PAP would answer S. Farmanyan in writing or in any other way, T. Urikhanyan said the following, “Is the PAP supposed to make a written response to status updates on personal pages on Facebook?”
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In response to another question of ours why S. Farmanyan had suddenly become interested in the answers to those questions, in T. Urikhanyan’s opinion, whether there was an implication in his status update, the PAP press secretary said, “I assume he is not informed and he is just curious, since there isn’t and cannot be any secret or intrigue in our position on those issues.”
Tatev HARUTYUNYAN
