DIRECTOR OF THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES. “HOW CAN ARCHIVAL DOCUMENTS ABOUT MIKOYAN BE INCREDIBLE?”

June 4 2014

After controversial and contradictory opinions about erecting the
statue to Anastas Mikoyan, the RPA and PAP faction of the Yerevan City
Council decided to vote in favor of the proposal to erect the statue
and rejected the suggestion of “Barev Yerevan” to review the decision.

In the conversation with journalists, Deputy Mayor of Yerevan
Municipality, Kamo Areyan, referring to archival documents about
Mikoyan’s anti-Armenian activities, which recently are widely
circulating on the Internet, has made such an allegation, “Archival
documents are passing the examination of credibility. These facts
should have been verified.” The Director of Armenia’s National
Archives, Amatuni Virabyan, was very much surprised at Mr. Areyan’s
this statement, “I am against the placement of the statue. I am aware
of Kamo Areyan’s statements. It is not a speech of a professional. All
of these documents are from the archives, so what they meant
is unacceptable for me. I have read it. It cannot happen. How can
archival document be incredible? He has said it just for saying,” he
said, in the conversation with Aravot.am. Mr. Virabyan asserted that
these documents reflect the reality and are on historical basis. “He
has said just for saying. Otherwise, how can an archival document be
incredible? Or, may be the Politburo’s decision is incredible?” To
our observation that according to Kamo Areyan these documents should
undergo investigation, Amatuni Virabyan countered, “There is no such
a thing. What investigation? In the end, can they say that there was
no Politburo decision that the number of executed in Armenia should
be increased?”

Hripsime JEBEJYAN

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From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress