“The leaders of the opposition who shall participate in direct dialog are in prisons now. Ararat Zurabyan, Sasun Mikayelyan, Myasnik Malkhasyan and others are the ones who should participate in dialog… In order to organize dialog you can’t keep people as hostages… It is illegal. We should stop this violence and then hope that the government may wish to change something,” said ex-FM Alexander Arzumanyan in his interview given to the radio Liberty in Yerevan Kentron police department. He assures that the accusations brought against him are fake and he has been subject to political persecution.