“Robert Kocharyan and Serzh Sargsyan, you decided to challenge the Armenian people, so here’s a challenge for you. You just wait,” said Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan during the “My Step” alliance’s election campaign gathering in Davitashen for the upcoming Yerevan City Council elections, regarding the top subject of the day. He reminded everyone that the heads of the NSS and SIS were secretly recorded.
“And I want to say without hindsight that this is a conspiracy and a crime against the Armenian state system. And I have commanded that the NSS and the police find out who the conspirators were as soon as possible and charge them in the strictest way possible. When I was still the editor-in-chief of the “Armenian Times,” we published information, that according to our sources some people with connections to oligarchs and high-ranking state officials obtained recording devices through robbing the people and definitely established special services within the state. I announce with full responsibility that all these “special services,” these groups that are illegally armed, will be discovered through security and will be destroyed. All illegally armed groups will be disarmed, and I command the NSS and police right now to raid oligarchs’ and high-ranking officials’ guards, lay them down on the asphalt, and disarm them. Mr. Artur Vanetsyan and Mr. Valery Osipyan, I want to hear your reports about this in two hours,” Pashinyan said.
Responding to people’s exclamations, Pashinyan replied, “The mouse and fish too! No mouse and no fish will get away with anything. The time for stealing in Armenia is over. Let everyone in America, Russia, Australia hear that we’re going to find them and bring back every stolen dram, every stolen coin, every stolen dollar. Everyone who mistakes our love and solidarity, our smiles and tolerance for weakness, let them feel the mighty forces of the law and of the people’s counterattack. Robert Kocharyan and Serzh Sargsyan, you’ve decided to challenge the Armenian people? Then welcome to the challenge. You just wait.”
“I demand there to be law and order in Armenia within two hours,” Pashinyan said.