NA vice chairman Vahan Hovhannisian reminds.
The Parliament was completely against parliamentarian Tatul Manaserian’s legislative initiative to form a temporary commission for discussing Armenian Genocide issues. Factually, the parliament was against the government, too as the government approved the parliamentarian’s proposal. But as it was found out, the government didn’t express any positive opinion and the minister of justice had said himself that the government was for that proposal. NA chairman made an exclusive decision to discuss that issue out of package, separately: “I share my partners’ anxiety that the formation of such commission will give our neighbor countries an opportunity to say that this parliament of Armenia does what they were proposing. It is even written that the conception of Armenian Genocide must be specified. What must we specify, the idea of this commission’s formation is inadmissible for me.” The NA vice chairman noticed: “As an experienced person I should say that the temporary commissions aren’t so effective in our society because discrepancies inside it become the public ownership, are reflected in the newspapers and create an atmosphere from which we will only suffer.”
The discussion of refused law about «Higher Interest» was more emotional. The NA chairman said in his speech that «irrespective of anyone\’s whish, the law makes us discuss this package during this four-day sitting, we should simply improve the draft.” The government brings a draft to the parliament for which the majority doesn\’t vote. It isn\’t known yet why the government insists on the adoption of that draft, this problem has become the part of show, and people gathered in front of the parliament, who were exiled from their homes on Buzand street not getting any valuable compensation for it, were demanding from the parliamentarians not to adopt the draft. «Justice» and OEP factions were against that draft as usual. Hovhannes Margarian reminded that one of the exiled inhabitants damned those who exiled them, represent the law and adopt it. Vahan Hovhannisian suggested; «Don\’t make damnation as a political category because the curse has already been made.”