He is noteworthy by the fact that this person paid AMD 547.8 million to the state budget in the period of January-February 2016, and was the 113th in the list. To imagine what a serious tax revenue it’s in Armenia, it should be taken into consideration that much tax was also paid by “Security dream” company.
“Overnight August 2-3 the Azerbaijani side violated the ceasefire regime for 31 times by firing more than 350 shots from various caliber weapons at the Armenian positions in Nagorno Karabakh-Azerbaijan line of contact.”
To the question how will Armenian FM reflect to such remarks, Tigran Balayan replied, that nobody attempts to comment or understand his words. “It’s been a long time that nobody attempts to understand the logic of his statements, there is no interest either,” Tigran Balayan said.
“It’s clear that a seizure has been recorded by a group of armed people, however, the authorities should think over a simple issue: why did the society appear in the street in support of that group? They did it not to support the armed people, i.e. they didn’t went out for an exact person, but for the reason that the authorities don’t hear their voices, don’t take them into consideration, there is no communication between the authorities and the society.”
“I agree that dependency from Russia should be decreased, but it’s impossible to reduce that dependency without NK conflict settlement and finding proper variant in relations with neighboring countries. In fact, Armenia needs not Russia’s support but security guarantees, which all its neighboring countries may give, both Georgia and Iran, and Turkey and Azerbaijan. Without such guarantees the situation in the country will continue and will lead to more and more radicalization of the situation.”
“Armenia’s investigation of the police assaults on demonstrators on July 29 should be swift and thorough,” said Giorgi Gogia, South Caucasus director at Human Rights Watch. “While the police have an obligation to maintain public order, they do not have carte blanche to use violence against people gathered to peacefully express their views.”
“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.”
“Use of the term ‘decolonization’ was interesting to me, and unfortunately, use of this term is proper. Not a single post-Soviet country, even countries regarded as Russia’s vassals, appeared in such dependency from Russia. For instance, Belarus and its position in Russia-Ukraine conflict. Armenia’s authorities have totally failed Armenia’s foreign policy, not speaking of the domestic policy, economic policy dragged to a deadlock, that in half an hour Moscow solved the issue of failure of Armenia’s association with the EU. Armenia’s authorities have no other way out, than showing independence, sovereignty from Moscow, for instance, regarding deploying that very peacekeeping mission.”
“The term ‘terrorist’ hasn’t been used for this period. Yet two days ago those operations weren’t even named terrorist corpus delicti, and it’s so, if the operations are directed against the population, civil persons. However, if NSS uses such a term, they have facts that those operations were directed not only against the authorities, the policemen, but against civil persons as well. Use of these terms shows that they intend to apply Article 217, maybe not towards all the members of the group.”
“People moved forward a bit slowly and we had this settlement, however, this shouldn’t oppress our people. We realize, we’ll continue our struggle. Revolutionaries appear in prisons, then leave due to the victory of their people. It’s also a way of struggle. We love you, Armenian people, dear citizens, nothing can separate us, we don’t want bloodshed. I, Arayik Khandoyan, others, understood we can’t raise a weapon on an Armenian. We see our people’s victory. Let this sacrifice become a nourishing root for the struggle, which will lead to the final result.”
