“Zhamanak” reports that Vahe Stepanian, who chaired the now defunct Fact-Finding Group of Experts, has relayed video material, recordings and written documents related to the March 2008 unrest in Yerevan to a special commission of the Armenian parliament without informing other members of the group. One of them, Seda Safarian, is quoted as denouncing the “dishonest step.” “Wasn’t it possible for all five members of the group to gather and decide the fate of the documents kept in our safe?” she says. “How do I know which materials he gave [to the parliamentary commission?] Or did he give all the materials or some of them?”
Speaking to “Hayots Ashkhar,” the commission chairman, Samvel Nikoyan, deplores the disclosure of the group’s first and only report by the opposition press. Nikoyan implicitly blames the group’s opposition members for the information leak.
“Hraparak” claims that the amnesty of arrested opposition members is “more needed by the authorities than the people.” “After all, the amnesty could be the best way out of the deadlock caused by the March 1 cases,” says the paper. “But the impression is that the authorities have devised something deceitful, a trap, and are preparing ground for that.”
“Kapital” quotes Vahan Hovannisian of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun) as telling the Arminfo news agency that his party will hold a roundtable discussion on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict soon. “I hope that after those discussions we will have an idea of just how close our and the Zharangutyun party’s positions on that issue are,” he says. “Only after that will we decide whether we can cooperate with Zharangutyun on the issue of Nagorno-Karabakh settlement.” Hovannisian also makes clear that Dashnaktsutyun has no intention to cooperate with another opposition force, the Armenian National Congress (HAK).
“Chorrord Ishkhanutyun” contends that President Serzh Sarkisian made last year “unprecedented and inadmissible concessions” on both Karabakh and Turkish-Armenian relations. “That ploy eased his plight for a while,” says the paper. “But the time to make good on his promises seems to have come. Serzh Sarkisian is refusing [to do that,] and the attitude of the international community is changing drastically.”
(Aghasi Yenokian)
Speaking to “Hayots Ashkhar,” the commission chairman, Samvel Nikoyan, deplores the disclosure of the group’s first and only report by the opposition press. Nikoyan implicitly blames the group’s opposition members for the information leak.
“Hraparak” claims that the amnesty of arrested opposition members is “more needed by the authorities than the people.” “After all, the amnesty could be the best way out of the deadlock caused by the March 1 cases,” says the paper. “But the impression is that the authorities have devised something deceitful, a trap, and are preparing ground for that.”
“Kapital” quotes Vahan Hovannisian of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun) as telling the Arminfo news agency that his party will hold a roundtable discussion on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict soon. “I hope that after those discussions we will have an idea of just how close our and the Zharangutyun party’s positions on that issue are,” he says. “Only after that will we decide whether we can cooperate with Zharangutyun on the issue of Nagorno-Karabakh settlement.” Hovannisian also makes clear that Dashnaktsutyun has no intention to cooperate with another opposition force, the Armenian National Congress (HAK).
“Chorrord Ishkhanutyun” contends that President Serzh Sarkisian made last year “unprecedented and inadmissible concessions” on both Karabakh and Turkish-Armenian relations. “That ploy eased his plight for a while,” says the paper. “But the time to make good on his promises seems to have come. Serzh Sarkisian is refusing [to do that,] and the attitude of the international community is changing drastically.”
(Aghasi Yenokian)