"Hraparak" writes:
In recent days, the criminal proceedings initiated against Robert Kocharyan have activated the CP backpacks, those who have accumulated bile and poison against former presidents. And, naturally, old topics have also been activated, for example, Poghos Poghosyan, the October 27 terrorist attack. On Thursday, Sasun Mikaelyan, who was speaking for the first time in this session and rarely speaks in general, used the NA rostrum to inflame hatred against Kocharyan.
He dedicated a fiery speech to the events of October 27, pointing the arrows in Kocharyan's direction. Every intelligent person understands that if Kocharyan had any connection with that case, then after 1999 that connection would have been revealed long ago. At least within the framework of the case reopened after 2018, when even Arman Babajanyan visited Nairi Hunanyan and talked to him for a long time. The path to that revelation is very short - Nairi Hunanyan testifies against Kocharyan, and Pashinyan's law enforcement officers are happy to press charges, but, as we see, this does not happen, and only verbal slander and political accusations remain from the lips of people like Sasun Mikaelyan. In an interview with "Hraparak", the leader of the Democratic Party, Aram Sargsyan, recalled an incident that he has not spoken about publicly for so many years. "In 2001-2007, trilateral meetings were organized with the participation of the former US Deputy Secretary of State, the then scientific director of the Russian Institute of Oriental Studies, Vitaly Naumkin, between delegations of Armenians, Artsakhis, and Azerbaijanis.
It was the only format within which the Artsakh people sat with the Azerbaijanis, and the parties did not refuse. The atmosphere was such that the parties had to talk everything clearly with each other, after which they would move on to constructive political activity, which later became the model group of the Minsk Group…. During that time, we won all the debates, because from a legal point of view we were right. I headed the Armenian delegation, and the Azerbaijani side was coordinated by the former Minister of Foreign Affairs Tofik Zulfugarov. Once the two of us went out for coffee, and I asked him a question: “Tofik, how did it happen that you and the presidential advisor on foreign relations submitted a surprise resignation?” They both resigned in 1999. He literally told me the following: “If we had not resigned, what happened in Armenia on October 27, 1999 would have happened to us too.”
I was stunned, it never even crossed my mind that he would give such an answer, he left, and I never saw him again. I have thought about all this for a long time and have come to the conclusion that this conspiracy was organized by much more serious forces, the secret services. There is a version that all this was not in Russia's interest. I am not saying this out of sympathy, but I am stating the truth: Vazgen Sargsyan and Karen Demirchyan had much more serious ties with Russia than anyone else. Vazgen Sargsyan had become the most trusted person for Russia and China. Once Vazgen went to Beijing and, supposedly by chance, met the defense ministers of Russia and China at the airport.
After the negotiations, Vazgen left for Moscow on the plane of the Russian Defense Minister, and after that visit, China provided us with missiles called “Triumph”. What I am saying is that Vazgen had established such relations with the parties that it is excluded that the Russian side would be interested in his death. The murder took place after Vazgen Sargsyan’s visit to the US. In the US, he had received very serious information about Armenia, especially regarding financial flows. He was told very clearly that 65 percent of Armenia’s financial flows are clear in which direction they circulate, and the other 35 percent remains dark. Are they not used in different directions, which I don’t even want to talk about? He returned from the US very upset and said during a government session that he would punish everyone. What happened after that happened.”
