Accusation has been brought against Davit Sanasaryan, press speaker of “Heritage” party, member of the Council of Elders. Robert Revazyan, his attorney, told 168.am that he has been arrested in suspicion of organizing mass disturbances, according to Article 225, Point 1 of the Criminal Code. Davit Sanasaryan doesn’t accept the charges against him. A motion has been submitted to the Court of First Instance of Arabkir and Kanaker-Zeytun administrative districts on choosing detention as a means of restraint.
“Gasprom Armenia” company tops the list of 1000 largest taxpayers of Armenia in the first half of 2016. The company has entered 24 billion 560 million 816.9 thousand AMD to the state budget, the data are summarized in the document published by the Armenian Tax Service.
“Now about the criticism which has been voiced. I am not talking about the armed persons that were acting in a distinct terrorist style and were hiding their intentions under the slogan of patriotic and social justice. I am talking about concern which is present in some segments of our society. Yes, it is true that the Armenian authorities are not perfect. Yes, it is true that there are many problems and complex issues in Armenia. Our goal is to give them a speedy resolution.”
“I thank our journalists and reporters for their dedicated work and for working for a bloodless resolution of the situation. I also apologize to the journalists for the events which took on the night of July 30; during these events it was our greatest blunder. Certainly, conclusions will be made. I ask for our indulgence, I ask journalists but not the low enforcement personnel to forget about these events, because I am confident that it will never happen again. I also want these events to have no event subconsciously an impact on the freedom of your work.”
“I have really dedicated my entire conscious life to this issue. And I have always been ready to sacrifice not only any position, but also my life for achieving an acceptable option for my people. This was like this yesterday, and this is how it is today: and it will be the same tomorrow. I will underscore by summing up, as a state, we got out of this challenge even stronger. And we are more intended today to move our agenda of positive changes forwards even more accelerated. And we will talk more detailed about this soon”, the President said.
At the end of the siege of police headquarters in Yerevan, OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović today sought reassurance from the foreign minister of Armenia that journalists’ rights and safety during times of civil unrest would be protected.
Armenian authorities took all possible measures to avoid human losses, President Sargsyan announced at a meeting with representatives of the society, leadership and clergy.
“Yerevan isn’t Beirut or Aleppo. Let no one attempt to import the solutions of the Cold War era of the previous century to Armenia from the Middle East. Let those who don’t understand this study the history of Lebanon’s civil war or the consequences of the ongoing Syrian civil war and make conclusions”.
“I would like to speak about another issue, which we have spoken about on many occasions. It is about the Karabakh issue and so called “surrender of lands.” My personal statements with regard to our clear-cut position on that are probably numberless. I repeat once again: there will be no unilateral concessions in the resolution of the NK issue. Never. Nagorno Karabakh will never be part of Azerbaijan.”
“Yerevan is neither Beirut nor Aleppo. Let no one aspire to import Near East solutions of the previous century, of the Cold War to Armenia. Let those who don’t comprehend this need to look at the history of Lebanon’s civil war or at the consequences of the civil war going on the moment in Syria and draw conclusions.”
