Lyudmila Sargsyan Says to Sedrak Achemyan and Gevorg Perkuperkyan
Yesterday R. Buniatyan, a judge of the trial court of the Arabkir and Kanaker-Zeytun administrative districts, settled the dispute of Hunchakians lasting for three years. As early as in 2009, there was talk that there was a fight in the Social Democrat Hunchakian Party (SDHP), a member of the Armenian National Congress (ANC) Coalition; a part of the party led by Chairman Lyudmila Sargsyan wanted to remain in the ANC Coalition, and the other
part led by Sedrak Achemyan, the Chairman of the Central Executive Committee, wanted to cooperate with the government. In the past three years, this case has caused quite a stir, so to speak – various statements against each other, various court rulings, the parties have even personally insulted each other. The last lawsuit demanding the handover of the party’s flag, registration certificate, property, seal, documentation, and archive to the new chairman was filed by the “pro-government” Hunchakian chairman, Gevord Perkuperkyan. After examining the case for one year, Judge Buniatyan decided at last that Perkuperkyan was the Chairman of the SDHP, and Sargsyan had to hand the party attributes over to him.
In this regard, Lyudmila Sargsyan, the chairman of the SDHP, said during a conversation with Aravot yesterday that this ruling was not a settlement for her at all, since nothing was finished by that. “We will exhaust all the remedies, till we reach the European Court, where we expect to find justice. It is just that the procedure is that we have to exhaust local remedies.” As for Gevorg Perkuperkyan, Sargsyan thinks that he can never be a legitimate chairman, since all the documents submitted to the court proved the contrary. “Our most just court sweated over it and made a ruling, but it was actually not a ruling, it was a political decision, which was imposed on the judge. It is beyond doubt, to which the very ruling of the court testifies. No submitted counterargument has been taken into account.” As the most striking example, Ms. Sargsyan referred to two different documents submitted by the other party, in which different places and dates were mentioned for the same convention: in one case it was the Ani Resort hotel complex, in the other case, it was the Tekeyan center. “It testifies to the fact that actually, no convention took place and couldn’t have been, since the executive committee didn’t make such a decision. Therefore, we don’t consider this ruling as a judicial decision and it cannot be a judicial one for us. This is a political instruction given by the chief executive of Armenia in return for SDHP Central Executive Committee Chairman Sedrak Achemyan’s congratulating Serzh Sargsyan on his election as president. And Tigran Sargsyan has been stirring up trouble and a divide in the SDHP in the past three years,” Lyudmila Sargsyan says.
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In response to Aravot’s observation that when the contradictions emerged in the SDHP, the wing supporting Lyudmila Sargsyan would state that the government had taken on a task to split the ANC and our question what task was undertaken now, Ms. Sargsyan said: “Yes, they tried to split the ANC at the time. They couldn’t. We remained in the ANC. Today it is a different issue; Tigran Sargsyan is involved in business deals with Sedrak Achemyan. Becoming pro-government, Sedrak Achemyan has insulted our heroes, their memory, has sworn loyalty to Serzh Sargsyan and has congratulated him on his reelection. That is the reason why the ruling was political and not judicial.” According to Ms. Sargsyan, the Hunchakians’ misfortunes testify to the fact that there is no justice in Armenia, there is no legal system, and no citizen of Armenia can achieve justice in Armenia. “That is the reason why people leave Armenia and not a negative atmosphere. And even if there is a negative atmosphere in Armenia, it has been created by none other than Tigran Sargsyan and Serzh
Sargsyan,” Lyudmila Sargsyan said mocking President Serzh Sargsyan’s famous phrase and added that the resident of Armenia left the fatherland not because he cannot earn his living, but actually and mostly because the concept of justice was distorted.
And Ms. Sargsyan tells Gevorg Perkuperkyan and Sedrak Achemyan: “There is many a slip ‘twixt the cup and the lip. You will still have to make a lot of effort, and I hope you will not reach your goal. Everything, including the political situation, is changeable in life, particularly in Armenia; therefore, if we don’t achieve justice in Armenia, we will achieve it in Europe.”
NELLY GRIGORYAN
