Representatives of the ANC and the Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) parliamentary groups came to an agreement in the state and legal affairs commission of the National Assembly, deciding to discuss after the presidential election the draft decision on establishing an interim commission in the parliament to examine the events of March 1. www.aravot.am found out what opposition forces inside and outside the parliament think about this decision of the government on the one hand and the ANC conciliation, on the other during a conversation with various politicians. Armen Martirosyan, the deputy leader of the Heritage Party, said: “I heard Davit Harutyunyan’s speech yesterday. It was important for me how the government perceived the commission’s activities. He stated that this commission did not have to solve political and legal issues. In that case, what issues must the commission solve? The demand it made that 50 percent must be from the government, the government has thus decided what limits the work of the commission must have. Therefore, if there is fifty percent, it is enough for not making a decision, as it happened during the extraordinary meeting of the parliament. As for the ANC, the ANC itself should explain. In any case, I don’t expect anything positive from all that. If this is the second round of the dialogue after 2011, it is a problem of the ANC and I don’t want to be between the finger and the ring. Dialogue 2, perhaps, this is a new episode of the dialogue. Davit Harutyunyan himself was engaged in the dialogue at the time.”
Aram Karapetyan, the leader of the New Times Party, thinks the possibility of a dialogue is logical and analyzing the work styles of the government and the ANC, stated: “The government’s work style is understandable. If they had completely refused it before the election, one would have said that they didn’t want to reveal etc. This is not serious PR, and it is understandable why they put it off for one year. As for the proposal of the ANC to establish a commission, I didn’t understand what the proposal was. If the commission will be the same as the one there was before; it is not the issue here whether it is good or bad. So if it won’t have specifically selected investigators and other groups, what the proposal aimed at? The ANC has a dialogue with Serzh Sargsyan, then it improves relations with the Prosperous Armenia Party (PAP). This is called a multidirectional political line. Now I don’t know – if it is too multidirectional, it may eventually lose the direction completely.”
Concluding the conversation, A. Karapetyan noted: “The issue of establishing a commission on the events of March 1 was not resolved; an attempt was made to solve all this somehow. From my perspective, it is not a good solution, if not a bad one.”
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