Agnesa Khamoyan, the representative of the "Armenia" faction of the Armenian National Assembly, wrote:
"Today, I had to present these papers with many notes, observations and questions, which you see on my desk, in the National Assembly Committee on Defense and Security Affairs, where the strategy of combating the use of narcotics and psychotropic substances for non-medical purposes and illegal circulation was discussed and the resulting 2025-2027 . the government's decision to approve the program of events.
I was deprived of the right to discuss many issues related to the voluntary screening of schoolchildren to the prevention of drug abuse among detainees with the Minister of Internal Affairs Arpine Sargsyan and his subordinates, just because of the unsatisfied personal ambitions of the commission chairman Andranik Kocharyan.
the latter simply announced that I could not participate in the committee's closed discussion. Let me remind you that according to Article 3, Clause 3 of the NA Rules of Procedure, "The MP has the right to make speeches, ask questions and present proposals at the sessions of the NA, its committees, working groups, as well as at parliamentary hearings."
And in the case of a closed discussion, the chairman of the committee is free to include this or that person, even more so a member of parliament.
I should mention that the same Andranik Kocharyan and many KP MPs participated in the closed discussion of the State Law Commission, during which the legislative initiative proposed by me was presented, which envisages drug testing of law enforcement officers.
Not only the leading staff of the forces were present at that discussion, but also CP deputies (not members of the committee), including the same Andranik Kocharyan, whose participation, and even more so, the questioning, I did not object to.
This incident, which may seem small at first glance, but is actually very important, once again shows what a new benchmark the bastion of democracy is setting, or as the famous movie would say, "the old man has become unbearable".
PS: It is interesting what is the opinion of the CP members (and especially the members of the committee) who have raised the alarm about the importance of participation in discussions by the opposition on various occasions about what happened."
