Ghazinyan on Throwing a Bottle Toward Pashinyan

“I am not inclined to throw a bottle at anyone; the bottle has come towards me twice, once hitting my head and once my chest,” stated Arthur Ghazinyan, a member of the 'Armenia' faction and deputy chairman candidate of the National Assembly's Standing Committee on Defense and Security, during a committee meeting. He responded to remarks made by Civil Contract MP Andranik Kocharyan, who claimed that Ghazinyan threw a bottle at Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan during the recent scuffle in the National Assembly.

“I threw the bottle back, in the same direction from which it came. If you insist that it was aimed at Nikol Pashinyan, it means that he threw the bottle in my direction. I insist that I threw it back in the direction it came from,” Ghazinyan said.