“Sasna Tsrer” party is ready to support Nikol Pashinyan. statement

“Sasna Tsrer” party is ready to support the realization of the goals mentioned in his statement in the case of appropriate systemic approach and consistency of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan. This is stated in the statement released by the party.

“Prime Minister of RA Nikol Pashinyan today, 2019 on May 20, made an important statement containing significant emphasis on making serious changes in the judicial system, as well as neutralizing threats to national security related to Artsakh. The goals set out in the announcement are largely in line with our agenda that has been brought to the public’s attention for years, so they are welcome for us in that sense. However, in order to achieve the intended goals, it is necessary to act with a systematic approach and be consistent.

First, the process needs to start with a juridical and political assessment of the previous regime’s activities. Although there were separate elements in the statement, a full juridical and political evaluation was not given, which is why the correct diagnosis and full treatment of the disease of the national-state organism remains problematic. In order to neutralize the national security threats related to Artsakh, it is not enough to create an intolerant attitude towards the 5th column or partial actions to restrain its individual representatives.

If Lavrov’s plan, aborted twice by the self-sacrificing bravery of our soldiers and officers during the April Four-Day War, and then by the uprising of Sasna Tsr, still remains on the agenda of the 5th Battalion and he is even today ready to hold his position at the cost of handing over territories liberated through conspiratorial war and separating Artsakh from RA, then its leading members, including: Serzh Sargsyan and Robert Kocharyan, should be immediately isolated from society on charges of creating a criminal partnership and usurping power through it, usurping the state and turning it into an instrument of their crimes, including treason.

Transitional justice, the necessity of which was mentioned in the statement of the RA Prime Minister, must be complete and comprehensive, because the crimes committed by the criminal cooperation that usurped the power and seized the state were systematic, covered almost all spheres of life, caused genocidal consequences and threatened the statehood, and the range of victims includes almost the entire nation. It should include the entire period of RA independence, as well as all the components of the international practice of transitional justice, including criminal justice and political, economic and agency lustration.

A Transitional Justice Court with a jury-style court format and an investigative component should be established by referendum. The cases regarding usurpation of power, state capture, state treason and other serious crimes of public-state significance, as well as acts of resistance against the activities of criminal cooperation (October 27, March 1, Berdzor state terrorism, April four-day war and other attempts to hand over liberated territories or actions of their preparation, Sasna Tsrer rebellion, etc.) should be taken to the existing law enforcement and judicial courts. from the proceedings and surrender At the Transitional Justice Tribunal.

In addition, the further participation of the persons who previously performed judicial actions in those cases in their examination should be excluded, as well as the alleged facts of committing crimes against justice by them during the examination of these cases should be thoroughly investigated.

Currently, the justice system has found itself in a state of legal self-denial and absurdity, as it simultaneously examines the citizens who committed an act of armed resistance in order to overthrow the constitutional order in the case of March 1, and to restore the overthrown constitutional order and abort the process of handing over the territories liberated due to the war, two of whom, Smbat Barseghyan and Armen Bilyan, are still in prison on trumped-up charges. This absurd phenomenon, which insults national dignity and destroys the meaning of justice, must be stopped immediately.

Smbat Barseghyan and Armen Bilyan cannot stay in a criminal prison for years and wait until the hands of Transitional Justice reach and provide a legal solution to their case. The adoption of the new Constitution is also very important, because all the constitutional referendums were falsified, besides, the state administration system formed by the current Constitution does not meet the standards of constitutionalism and democracy.

The partial changes to the current Constitution, which the RA Prime Minister’s statement implies, cannot solve the problems of the Constitution’s legitimacy and effective state administration.

The secretariat of the Sasna Tsrer All-Armenian Party once again assures that it is ready to support the realization of the goals stated in his statement in the case of a systemic approach and consistency in accordance with the above mentioned by the RA Prime Minister.