Pashinyan confirmed our claim, the NSS was recognized as responsible for the “sleeve” of the video

On June 17, we: “Will Pashinyan observe the “sleeve” of the video subject to the protection of the National Security Service in the “territory” of the command of the Border Guard Forces?” We are an article with a reprint to publish where we talked about banning the exit of the second president of RA, Robert Kocharyan, from one of the surveillance cameras of the border checkpoint installed in “Zvartnots”, Nikol Pashinyan’s family in the media appearance, whether or not it is defined by the law.

We insisted that Nikol Pashinyan will not see his responsibility regarding the “sleeve” of this video and will put everything on the leadership of the National Security Service directly subordinate to him and the command of the Border Guard troops. It turned out that we were not mistaken.

During the briefing held after the Cabinet meeting on June 18, journalists asked Pashinyan whether he will demand an official investigation on the occasion of the fact that the recording of one of the surveillance cameras of the border checkpoint installed in “Zvartnots” appeared in the media, there was a leak, to which he stated:

“If the question is whether I have appointed an official investigation, no, I have not. About what should be an official investigation, or why should it anger me? That which appears in your media, is it possible, but that it is in another media… Regarding what appeared in your media, I think there is not only an official investigation, but also a criminal case.

A NSS employee can decide whether or not to leak anything, what’s the problem? In other words, it is the information he possesses, he will leak it, he will not leak it, what is the problem there? The competent persons who have the authority to make those decisions will make them. Whenever that decision is made by people who do not have the authority and access to it, it is already a violation of the law.”

In response to another journalist’s question on the same topic, Pashinyan repeated that the NSS, having the relevant information, has the leverage to use it, it is up to him to decide. In this context, he, for some reason, remembered the case of Andranik Tevanyan, that the National Security Service published his “actions”.

“The NSS decides when to publish and when not to publish, what is the problem?” It was also a criminal case, a situation related to state security. Who decided that…, that is, the state can’t make a decision and take some actions,” Pashinyan emphasized.

The problem is that the state and the state official must act according to the law, if their actions are based on the law, no problem, if not, then it implies specific responsibility, especially when there are also laws on the rights of RA citizens. And Pashinyan should not forget that the NSS reports directly to him, and it is hard to believe that this happened only by the decision of the NSS management, without a preliminary conversation or consultation with him.

By the way, information leakage is the unauthorized access to confidential or restricted data, that is, there cannot be a wording of “leaking” about what happened according to the law.

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