Yesterday the department of public relations of the National Assembly reported that on May 5 the National Assembly Committee of Human Rights and the Committee of European Integration held a joint meeting during which they decided to hold a joint parliamentary hearing on June 5. The topic is the extraordinary report of the ombudsman Armen Harutyunyan on the presidential election and post-election developments. The committees have affirmed the list of spokesmen: the human rights defender Armen Harutyunyan, the prosecutor general Aghvan Hovsepyan, the minister of justice Gevorg Danielyan, who quite surprisingly have been expressing rather negative opinion about the Ombudsman’s last report. Reminder: In his report Harutyunyan only mentioned that the government is also guilty of the events of March 1. He mentioned this fact in a very indirect manner. Therefore the parliamentary hearing scheduled for June 5 is nothing else but the response of the government (specifically former president Robert Kocharyan) to Armen Harutyunyan’s accusation. And as a coincidence the committee includes people, who have been considered as Kocharyan’s “loyalists.”
