Mediamax, Armenia
Sept 28 2012

Vardan Oskanyan ready to fight `to the end’

Yerevan/Mediamax/. Former Armenian Foreign Minister, member of PAP
faction Vardan Oskanyan stated that `Armenian Prosecutor General’s
petition submitted to the parliament to deprive me of parliamentary
immunity is a political order.’

`Since the very first day, when the Armenian National Security Service
instituted the criminal case, it was quite clear for me that this was
a political order, as the case was devoid of legal content.

I have not officially received the petition on depriving me of
parliamentary immunity yet, so I don’t want to make assumptions about
what concrete charges will be brought forward. Up till now, it’s been
only about `money laundering’, `malicious evasion of tax obligations’
or `appropriation of money’. I won’t be surprised if there will be
other absurd accusations coming up.

Irrespective of what accusations they have prepared for me, it can’t
have any legal grounding.

This is a new milestone of political fight for me. Although this way
of fight is not mine, I am ready to fight to the end. If all this aims
to restrain my political activity and silence my criticism over failed
authorities in all the spheres, then I can definitely say that the
authorities have failed in these calculations too.

Even in such conditions, I am ready to continue my fight to achieve
real changes in the country,’ the statement issued by Vardan Oskanyan
reads.

From: Baghdasarian