On August 4, in the context of the election of the new chairman of the National Defense and Security Committee we have touched on Regarding the question of whether or not to make public the report of the investigative commission related to the 44-day event.

In our article, we mentioned that the agenda of the newly elected NA inaugural session will soon include the vote for the candidate for the chairman of the NA Standing Committee on Defense and Security, Vilen Gabrielyan, and he will be asked questions about the 44-day report, so this issue will be addressed. In addition to this, we have reminded Pashinyan’s answer to the question, “Why is the report not published?”

“The report of the investigative commission has arrived now… let’s say, isn’t it clear to you that it will also be published in some way,” he responded.

Accordingly, we have not excluded that maybe at a politically convenient moment for him, Pashinyan will publicize it in some format or make it a subject of discussion, and maybe Vilen Gabrielyan or the new Speaker of the National Assembly will attribute this “success” to himself.

And these days in the National Assembly, as expected, Vilen Gabrielyan, who is running for the post of the chairman of the Standing Committee on Defense and Security of the RA National Assembly, was asked questions related to the publication of the 44-day report.

What did Gabrielyan answer, who, by the way, did not read the report and did not put his signature under it, as a member of the National Defense and Security Standing Committee in the previous parliament, although he participated in the interrogations invited by the investigative committee.

“The issue of the fate of the report of the investigative commission should be resolved exclusively in accordance with the principles of public accountability, transparency, law and objectivity, without biased assessments. Our society’s right to be informed cannot be compromised.”, – was the answer of the representative of the ruling power.

By the way, the former chairman of the NA Standing Committee on Defense and Security Affairs, Andranik Kocharyan, recently told journalists that the report should at least be read by those who lost a son, a husband in the 44-day period, that is, those who lost relatives.

And to the rebuttal: Are you ready to publish that report or not, Vilen Gabrielyan first responded that it has not been made public until now, the reason is the misinterpretation of the laws.

Let’s recall the Andranik Kocharyan-Alen Simonyan legislative dispute, when the events developed according to what Alen Simonyan said. But later Gabrielyan mentioned the real reason.

“It is not for Vilen Gabrielyan to decide, nor for the Chairman of the Defense and Security Committee, but it is Vilen Gabrielyan’s wish that this report be available to our public.“, he emphasized.

We came here and reached our conclusion: the decision-maker is Nikol Pashinyan.

Whether Vilen Gabrielyan’s wish will become Pashinyan’s wish at some point, time will tell when and to what extent.

One thing is clear: at that time, legislative grounds will be found, at least it will become a topic of discussion at one of the sessions of the new permanent committee on defense and security issues of the National Assembly.

Who knows, maybe at that time the former head of the RA Armed Forces General Onik Gasparyan to organize a closed meeting on the circumstances of the 44-day war will also be implemented to some extent. the offer, the implementation of which in the pre-election period, the former Minister of Defense of the Republic of Armenia Davit Tonoyan did not consider correct, on the grounds of not giving rise to various speculations.

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