Pashinyan Crosses Boundaries, Evades Questions: MP

The NA "We Have Honor" faction has one agenda in discussions with Nikol Pashinyan, and that is his resignation. This was stated today, October 28, during a conversation with journalists by faction member Tigran Abrahamyan.

“Secondly, if there is a topic to discuss, the parliament had several opportunities. The first was related to various officials, such as the Director of the NSS, the Minister of Defense, the Prosecutor General, with whom parliamentary opposition factions had already filed requests for clarifications on various issues more than a month ago. These opportunities were not utilized by the aforementioned officials, and they did not come to the parliament,” he said.

According to the MP, the next opportunity was the urgent discussion format stipulated by the Constitution, the topic being the situation at the contact line, and issues related to delimitation. “However, the authorities engaged the commanders of the NSS border troops and the deputy chief of the General Staff, who were not competent to answer 90 percent of the questions related to the agenda, and in terms of the other 10 percent, there was essentially no response that contained substance or importance,” he noted.

Regarding the possibility of meeting with Pashinyan on the mentioned issues in any format, Tigran Abrahamyan indicated that there were formats envisaged by the Constitution and the Rules of Procedure of the NA, which he had already mentioned. “As for the specific agenda of the meeting with Nikol Pashinyan, our faction's secretary has already informed this, and I repeat, it is the agenda of his resignation. In the formats presented during the Government's Q&A sessions and during the presentation of the Government program, Pashinyan essentially does not answer questions; he crosses boundaries, and in many cases, to evade the aforementioned questions, he refers to completely different topics that are unrelated to the current agenda. In that case, I see no point in sitting down and discussing with Nikol Pashinyan,” insisted Tigran Abrahamyan.

Abrahamyan also emphasized that the government should first and foremost be accountable to society on issues related to the country’s borders and security. “When the opposition says that agreements behind closed doors should not be reached, or the topic of signing a document should not be behind closed doors, it does not mean that it demands Pashinyan to come and talk to him, but rather that he should be accountable to society, so that we do not have a new document of November 9, of which the public learned only after it was signed,” the MP said.