“Their facial expressions and downcast conditions were not so good logical proof of the fact that they were deeply aware of what they are involved in,” so responded the Head of the Armenian Institute for International and Security Affairs, Stepan Safaryan, in response to the question of Aravot.am at the court yard of the Constitutional Court (CC) after the publication of the decision by the CC on compliance of Armenia’s accession to the EEC Treaty to constitution, so whether now the CC members became involved in the crime as he had stated earlier.
As he said, “this is at least, if not for the moment, a matter of political reversal and raising their response, but they know that their names would be written in the future volumes about harassment against the sovereignty of Armenia for their grandchildren and great-grandchildren, and their descendants will live in dire and will give up their names and last names, like one of Mikoyan’s heirs.” To our observation of whether this is already an irreversible phenomenon, like the first President of Armenia Levon Ter-Petrosyan used to say, Mr. Safaryan replied, “Levon Ter-Petrosyan was not a prophet, he just stated that because of inactivity of them and other political forces, the processes have become irreversible.”
To our question of whether it is possible to change the situation under the CC decision, Mr. Safaryan responded that they had discussed the issue of applying to some activities during the phase of ratification by the National Assembly. Turning to the members of the Constitutional Court, Mr. Safaryan said, “They know very well that their names be remembered in history in another way. I’m very sorry for them. Gagik Harutyunyan and Felix Tokhyan were my first university professors. I have worked with Arevik Sahakyan at the National Assembly, we were in good relationship, I knew Alvina Gyulumyan from Strasbourg. I feel sorry for them, I am pitiful for them, they did not spare themselves, if I were them I would at least resign prior to publication of the decision.”
Citizen Vahagn Minasyan, in the conversation with us, said, “With its decision, CC proved that this system in the face of Gagik Harutyunyan and all members, has nothing to do with human fundamental rights and freedoms, generally, with the law.” The citizen emphasized that the Constitutional Court judges are the “regime servicemen” and at least he would not cope. Program Coordinator of “Union of Informed Citizens” NGO, Daniel Ioannisyan, referred to the justification of CC decision and in the conversation with us, said, “They tried to imitate that this agreement does not differ from other international treaties. This is a great bluff presented to the public.” Then, he said that the CC just bypassed the issues of raising concern. “Now and onwards, the functions attributed to the Constitution, the National Assembly and the government will pass to Moscow, and the CC simply circumvented these provisions of the EaEC Treaty, did not discuss them as if they were not significant. CC cited the word consensus for 75 times, when the decisions at the EaEU are not passed by the consensus. This is the most anti-constitutional international treaty in the existence of independent Armenia and the Constitutional Court.”
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