“If you were the head of the state what would you do about a prime minister who said that he could not do anything about emigration because if those critical masses stayed in Armenia, they would do a revolution?” asked ANC faction secretary Aram Manukyan during yesterday’s discussion of the government’s program 2012-2017 in the parliament, meanwhile introducing the statistical information of emigration for this year. In answer to A.Manukyan’s question the prime-minister said that he had not said that kind of thing and the editorial of the newspapers that had published that information had apologized for wrong understanding of his words. “It is a common and known practice to say things about an opponent, which he has not said. The PM has never made such announcement. If you mean the interview that was published in 168 Hours newspaper, the editorial has apologized for wrong interpretation of that part. We should respect the editor’s announcement and the prime-minister’s interpretation that people should not mar the words of others and it will not give anything to them,” he said yesterday. Tigran sargsyan is simply lying. 168 Hours has never apologized to him for that interview. And the reason was that the PM did not refuse the fact of saying such thing. Even more, when after the publication of the interview there was a noise around that part, the PM’s press department published an official explanation that the prime-minister had joked, and the journalist did not take it into consideration. At that time 168 Hours simply published the explanation provided by the press department of the prime-minister.
