“Aram Manukyan has probably forgotten that the coalition memorandum was signed on March 21, 2008; a force that had been in the coalition before that couldn’t have nominated an alternative candidate and the ARF had had its own presidential candidate. Those accusations against the ARF are absurd, because we have clearly expressed our position, moreover, we actively participated in the work of the commission with our reservations and if anyone is so interested in revealing the events of March 1 and to hold the guilty responsible, those people should have stood by the ARF,” Artsvik Minasyan, a member of the ARF parliamentary group, said to www.aravot.am, commenting on what Aram Manukyan, the secretary of the Armenian National Congress (ANC) parliamentary group, had said yesterday.
Let us remind that yesterday in response to a question how the ANC could cooperate with the Prosperous Armenia Party (PAP), which it deemed guilty of organizing the events of March 1, Mr. Manukyan said, “There may be also accusation against the ARF in what you say to a certain extent; they were in the coalition at the time, have you forgotten?”
Arpine SIMONYAN
