NA Speaker Galust Sahakyan urged the members of “No to Plunder” initiative to abide to obedience of law stay and exclude uncontrollable and unpredictable development of the situation, move the fight to a more rational dimension: dialogue and cooperation. Aravot.am talked on this statement with Argishti Kiviryan who participates in the sit-in against the electricity price hike in Baghramyan Avenue. “So far, all the offers made by the authorities were rejected, the rejection was clearly substantiated that the minimum demands are offered and these minimum demands must be met.
In other words, a clear question was raised that the authorities would totally forget about the price hike, rather than trying to cancel it, playing some games and deceiving the people, and completely give up the idea of raising the price of electricity. The other main demand is that all the police and the senior police officials should bear responsibility for their violence and use of force against the peaceful demonstrators and the journalists on June 23 early in the morning,” he said. Argishti Kiviryan stressed that the government is aware of the protesters’ demands. According to him, in this case, the authorities should either fulfill these demands or fail. “What should this or that individuals negotiate about?
It is obvious that these talks will bear merely a formal nature, these talks only pursue a goal for the authorities to gain time, trying to mislead people to dispel the people gathered here from Baghramyan Avenue. Either the government should clearly meet these demands and afterwards it can sit down and negotiate on many thousands of issues accrued in the country, but the government should clearly fulfil this minimum demand.” The analyst noted that none of the three demands of the protesters was resolved. “The government is just busy with misleading people, by using force here through the police, carrying out provocations and with the attempts to remove people from here by various means, you saw that a few days ago they tried to remove people from here to the Freedom Square and this attempt also failed. They should ultimately understand that they should make a stop and give a solution to the problems, the rest of similar methods so far worked against them.”
Ami CHICHAKYAN
