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    Emil Lazarian
  • 4 years ago
    • Categories: 2022

Legislature majority faction votes against bills criminalizing questioning of Armenia territorial integrity

NEWS.am
Armenia –
10:43, 23.03.2022

The National Assembly on Wednesday did not pass the package of bills—submitted by opposition MPs Ishkhan Saghatelyan, Aram Vardevanyan, and Aghvan Vardanyan—which proposed criminalizing any _expression_ against the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Armenia.

The MPs of the ruling majority “Civil Contract” Faction voted against these drafts—which received 30 votes in favor, 63 against, and 1 abstention.

Emil Lazarian: “I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS