PRIME MINISTER SAYS SOME DOUBTS STILL REMAIN
ArmenPress
27 Oct 2004
YEREVAN, OCTOBER 27, ARMENPRESS: Armenian prime minister Andranik
Margarian said today fighting against terrorism is “the sacred duty”
of all governments, adding also that Armenia has voiced its readiness
to join international efforts. Speaking to reporters after visiting
Yerablour cemetery in a Yerevan outskirts, where some of eight top
government officials, shot down by terrorists in 1999 October 27
parliament shooting rest, the prime minister said the 1999 attack
threw Armenia back for several years.
Speaking also about the five-year-old attack the prime minister said
its perpetrators were arrested and sentenced, but added that there
remain still some doubts about whether they were the sole masterminds
of the attack. He said many people still believe there were other
people, or third forces, either in Armenia or outside it, who might
have been involved in the plot. The prime minister went on saying
that the trial gave answers to some of the questions only.
Foreign minister Vartan Oskanian who also was at the cemetery said
Armenia should reinforce its borders to prevent the country from
becoming a transit route for terrorists.