“Honorable Zhirayr, we apply to you since we know that you appreciate and attach value to the opinion and plea of intellectuals. Today your friends, who are also our compatriots, have taken an extreme step by initiating and armed assault and taking hostages.”
The National Security Service once more states that the measures taken are specific and highly professional, thus, the persons organizing and conducting those measures do not need outside intervention and assistance. Armenian law enforcement agencies are on standby, however, till now there are no necessary prerequisites for them to engage.”
“Maybe one should at least edify to be able to judge what’s going on inside. From the viewpoint of social assessments, I think, day by day the crack of the society is expanding, which is inadmissible. We start to treat one another with hostility. The idea, which doesn’t correspond to ours is perceived as betrayal or disposition of an enemy—this is very dangerous. Intolerance is not principality, it’s a lack of brains, when you don’t think of implications,” the intellectual said.
“We want to see political change through democratic processes,” added Toner. “And so we would certainly want to caution anybody who thinks that violence is a plausible way to achieve any political aims.”
“The occurrence was qualified as a failed attempt of military coup. Military officers in Istanbul stopped the traffic on all the bridges, few movements were observed in different parts of the city. In Ankara, where I live, 2-3 military helicopters were flying rather low targeting some parts of the city, including the Police department of the Parliament. While attacking the Parliament building shooting from the helicopter was recorded. The eyewitnesses claim that civilians have been killed as well.”
Trofimchuk stated, that one of the main factors, which instigated “Sasna Tsrer” group to take that building and hostages after the April war and timely ceasefire is incomprehensible development of NK conflict settlement process. According to the analyst the way the group members fought in Karabakh, together with their supporters they currently decided to activate the issue, submitting applications to the authorities.
“It’s very difficult to give advice to the authorities, who allowed such developments throughout recent years, and in the situation in which meetings of Armenian and Russian delegations of armed forces to discuss issues of united system, is the continuation of the system of issues, which have been recorded throughout recent years.”
“In this regard, frankly speaking, I’m very content and happy. I need to add one point, if negotiations aren’t disrupted, in this case, it’s anticipated that steps increasing tension and leading to sharpening of the situation from both sides were excluded. In that case it’s clear, who’s the initiator of the steps throughout last 15 hours. Accordingly, I repeat, I want to believe to the assurance, that negotiations aren’t disrupted, but if they’re not disrupted, sharpening shouldn’t be observed as well,” Yenigomshyan said.
It’s not known what was said from the other side, however Alek Yenigomshyan was asking to restore connection with members of “Sasna Tsrer” group, as it’s the only means, by which he gets information from them. To all probabilities they agreed around some issue, as Alek Yenigomshyan said, “Ok,” and turned off his phone. He refused to give any comments.
“There is a third variant proposed by Jirair Sefilian, which will provide the opportunity to settle this situation peacefully and that situation is currently being discussed, and we follow those negotiations and we also make a steps forward to show our readiness of being constructive.”
