Gen. Khachaturov Leads Armenian Delegation To Italy Amid Allegations

GEN. KHACHATUROV LEADS ARMENIAN DELEGATION TO ITALY AMID ALLEGATIONS ABOUT SON’S VIOLENT CONDUCT

NEWS | 17.06.13 | 13:02

Chief of the General Staff of Armenia’s Armed Forces Yuri Khachaturov
has left for Rome on a three-day visit during which he and members of
his delegation will meet with Italian counterparts to discuss issues
pertaining to military ties.

According to the Armenian Defense Ministry’s press service,
the meetings of the delegations will focus on expanding military
cooperation as well as issues concerning the deployment of Armenian
peacekeepers in Lebanon under Italian command as part of the UN
Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL).

Meanwhile, Khachaturov’s name has been in the news back in Armenia in
connection with allegations made by an online media outlet suggesting
that the general’s son beat four servicemen in a military unit in
Dilijan. Unnamed sources of the publication, Nrnak.com, further
claimed that in doing so he acted under the influence of alcohol.

Armenian Defense Ministry spokesman Artsrun Hovhannisyan was quick
to deny any such occurrence, calling such allegations ‘cheap lies’
and ‘misinformation’.

“Let this site gives the name of at least one serviceman who has
suffered from Colonel Khachaturov’s actions,” the spokesman told
Panorama.am, adding that Khachaturov’s son was last in the military
unit in question on June 6.

It is not clear whether General Khachaturov’s visit to Italy and
allegations about his son’s behavior are a coincidence.

http://www.armenianow.com/news/46957/armenia_defense_ministry_delegation_italy_yuri_khachaturov

FNA Report Confirmed By Putin’S Statement On Chemical Weapons Produc

FNA REPORT CONFIRMED BY PUTIN’S STATEMENT ON CHEMICAL WEAPONS PRODUCTION FOR SYRIAN REBELS

News number: 9203184696
17:51 | 2013-06-19

TEHRAN (FNA)- Russian President Vladimir Putin said chemical
laboratories in Iraq are producing chemical weapons for the terrorists
in Syria, confirming a detailed report by the FNA last month which
said former Ba’ath regime officials are involved in the production
and procurement of such weapons to the Syrian terrorists.

“We know that Opposition Fighters were detained on Turkish territory
with chemical weapons,” Mr. Putin told a press conference in Lough
Erne, Northern Ireland after meeting the leaders of the industrialized
nations in a G8 Summit.

“We have information out of Iraq that a laboratory was discovered
there for the production of chemical weapons by the opposition. All
this evidence needs to be studied most seriously,” he continued.

Putin questioned the credibility of allegations by the US, UK and
France that Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad’s forces had used chemical
weapons, and attributed equivalent horrors to the forces supported
by the West.

Early last month, informed sources told FNA that the innocent people
killed in the Khan al-Assal area of rural Aleppo in Northwestern Syria
were the victims of the chemical weapons supplied to the terrorists
by a Saddam-era General working under head of the now outlawed Ba’ath
party Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri.

“The chemical weapons used in the attack on Khan al-Assal area had
been prepared by former Iraqi Military Industries Brigadier General
Adnan al-Dulaimi and supplied to Ba’ath-affiliated terrorists of
the Nusra Front in Aleppo through Turkey’s cooperation and via the
Turkish town of Antakya in Hatay Province,” an informed source, who
asked to remain anonymous for fear of his life, told FNA on April 6.

The source who has been an aide to Izzat Ibrahim – the most senior
member of Saddam Hussein’s inner circle who is still on the run and
heads the outlawed Ba’ath party after the apprehension and execution
of Iraq’s former Dictator Saddam Hussein – defected from the group a
few months ago, but holds substantiating documents on Izzat Ibrahim’s
plans.

Gen. Adnan al-Dulaimi was a key man in Saddam’s chemical weapons
production projects. After the fall of the dictator and when the
Ba’ath party was divided into the two branches of Yunes al-Ahmad
and Izzat Ibrahim, he joined the latter group and was deployed in
Northwestern Iraq, which is a bastion of Ba’ath terrorists, to produce
chemical substances.

“The 80mm mortar shells which landed in Khan al-Assal and killed
dozens of people were armed with the latest product of Dulaimi’s hidden
laboratories sent to the Nusra members for testing,” the source added.

“Also at his order, several former Iraqi military industries engineers
trained the Syrian terrorists on how to use these chemical weapons,”
the source said, adding that all plans in this connection were prepared
by Adnan al-Dulaimi and staged after the approval of Izzat Ibrahim.

The chemical mortar shells, which the source said were fired at
Khan al-Assal from the Nusra-ruled Kafr Dael in Northwestern Aleppo,
contained a chemical substance very familiar to the Iraqi Ba’ath party
leaders, Sarin nerve gas. Adnan Dulaimi and his Ba’athist colleagues
in Iraq’s military industries mass-produced the same lethal gas and
used it in vast areas against the Iranian troops in the 1980-1988
war and eventually killed thousands of people in the Kurdish town of
Halabcheh with the same chemical agent.

UN human rights investigators announced just a few hours ago that
they have testimony indicating Syrian rebels have used Sarin gas.

Interviews with victims and doctors have provided “strong, concrete
suspicions” that rebels used the deadly nerve agent, according to
a lead investigator, who also stressed that there’s no evidence yet
that the Syrian military used Sarin.

“Our investigators have been in neighboring countries interviewing
victims, doctors and field hospitals and, according to their report
of last week which I have seen, there are strong, concrete suspicions
but not yet incontrovertible proof of the use of Sarin gas, from the
way the victims were treated,” member of the UN independent comm.

http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=9203184696

The Azeri Lobby Fails In Brazil

THE AZERI LOBBY FAILS IN BRAZIL

Agencia de Noticias del Diario ARMENIA // News Agency of Diario ARMENIA
Armenia 1366, Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
Tel. (5411) 4775-7595
[email protected]

BRASILIA (Diario ARMENIA).- In early June, the Azeri media reported
that Foreign Minister of Azerbaijan Elmar Mammadyarov met with a
Brazilian delegation led by Nelson Pellegrino and Claudio Cajado,
both Federal Deputies of Brazil.

Professor James Onnig Tamdjian, columnist of Portal Estacão Armenia, a
website of the Brazilian-Armenian community, explained that Pellegrino
and Cajado, were both Turkish lobbyists. Nelson Pellegrino is a member
of the ruling Partido dos Trabalhadores, while Claudio Cajado is member
of the opposing party Democratas. “It’s strange how both parties are
rivals but they act together in this topic”, added Tamdjian.

The two Brazilian deputies pledged to submit an application to the
Committee on Foreign Affairs and National Defense, in which Brazil
would support Azerbaijan and demand the withdrawal of Armenian
troops from various regions of Nagorno Karabakh. The Requirement
285, filed on June 5, demanded that “this Commission approve and
forward a motion to the Security Council of the United Nations (UNSC)
for the promotion and implementation of Resolutions 822 (1993), 853
(1993), 874 (1993), 884 (1993) demanding withdrawal of all Armenian
armed forces from Azerbaijan’s territory and immediate return of the
displaced population”.

Portal Estacão Armenia organized an awareness campaign, urging people
to send their complaints to the two politicians involved in the Azeri
lobby. Representatives of the Brazilian-Armenian community and Armenian
Ambassador Ashot Yeghiazaryan, also sent letters of protest.

Requirement 285 was eventually dropped “at request of the author”,
according to official information from the Brazilian Chamber of
Deputies. The Azeri application was also removed from the agenda of
Committee on Foreign Relations, although according to Tamdjian, there
are chances that the application could be introduced again on July 10.

www.diarioarmenia.org.ar

Major General Hovik Ohanian Appointed General At Large Missions

MAJOR GENERAL HOVIK OHANIAN APPOINTED GENERAL AT LARGE MISSIONS

Wednesday,
June 19

By an order of Armenian Defense Minister Seyran Ohanian, Major General
Hovik Ohanian has been appointed General at Large Missions of Armenia’s
Defense Ministry, the press service of the ministry reported.

Major General Hovik Ohanian was previously the commander of the 2nd
army corps of the Defense Ministry.

TODAY, 20:14

Aysor.am

Mkhitaryan Would Become Liverpool’s Revelation – Armenian Internatio

MKHITARYAN WOULD BECOME LIVERPOOL’S REVELATION – ARMENIAN INTERNATIONAL GOALKEEPER

June 19, 2013

If Liverpool can fight for high places in the English Premier League
and if Henrikh Mkhitaryan always excels, he could become the top
player in the Premier League.

Armenian national squad and Russia’s Dynamo Moscow goalkeeper
Roman Berezovsky, 38, stated the aforesaid. He spoke about the news
concerning Armenian national team and Ukraine’s FC Shakhtar Donetsk
attacking midfielder Henrikh Mkhitaryan’s possible transfer to
England’s Liverpool FC.

“Mkhitaryan [, 24,] is a great player. I believe he would become
Liverpool’s revelation. Everything will turn out well for him in any
European club. Henrikh is a versatile player. In addition, he knows
several languages-English, Russian, French, and Portuguese-and he
will easily adapt to England.

“Mkhitaryan shows a professional approach toward football. He achieved
great progress after moving to Shakhtar, and he became the top player
and scorer of the Ukrainian [Premier] League,” Sport Express quotes
Berezovsky as saying.

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international goalkeeper

June 19, 2013

If Liverpool can fight for high places in the English Premier League
and if Henrikh Mkhitaryan always excels, he could become the top
player in the Premier League.

Armenian national squad and Russia?s Dynamo Moscow goalkeeper Roman
Berezovsky, 38, stated the aforesaid. He spoke about the news
concerning Armenian national team and Ukraine?s FC Shakhtar Donetsk
attacking midfielder Henrikh Mkhitaryan?s possible transfer to
England?s Liverpool FC.

?Mkhitaryan [, 24,] is a great player. I believe he would become
Liverpool?s revelation. Everything will turn out well for him in any
European club. Henrikh is a versatile player. In addition, he knows
several languages?English, Russian, French, and Portuguese?and he will
easily adapt to England.

?Mkhitaryan shows a professional approach toward football. He achieved
great progress after moving to Shakhtar, and he became the top player
and scorer of the Ukrainian [Premier] League,? Sport Express quotes
Berezovsky as saying.

NEWS.am Sport

‘NKR’s Participation In Negotiations Is Sin Qua Non For Progress’

‘NKR’S PARTICIPATION IN NEGOTIATIONS IS SIN QUA NON FOR PROGRESS’

Wednesday,
June 19

Below are the comments by NKR Minister of Foreign Affairs Karen
Mirzoyan on the Joint Statement on Nagorno-Karabakh by the Heads of
the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chair States:

“We welcome the interest of the heads of the OSCE Minsk Group co-chair
states, reflected in their June 18 Joint Statement, in achieving a
sustainable and peaceful settlement of the conflict between Azerbaijan
and Nagorno Karabakh.

This statement is another proof that the co-chairs are determined to
exclude the possibility of resumption of hostilities and to contribute
to the peaceful settlement of the conflict.

At the same time, we consider it necessary to reiterate our position
that the restoration of full-fledged negotiations with the immediate
and direct participation of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic in all its
stages is a sin qua non for achieving real progress in the settlement
process, which is strongly hampered by Azerbaijan.

We hope that the call to intensify the efforts for a peaceful
settlement will be heard in Azerbaijan and its leadership will
refrain from attempts of a selective interpretation of the norms and
principles of international law, escalation of tension and mistrust,
as well as ignoring the existing realities.

Since the Nagorno Karabakh Republic is the most interested party in
finding a way out of the current situation in the negotiation process
and reaching decisions on the issues directly related to the future
of the country and its people, it is ready to further exert efforts to
establish lasting peace and stability, ” the statement reads, according
to the press service of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the NKR.

TODAY, 14:41

Aysor.am

Former French Foreign Minister: The War Against Syria Was Planned Tw

FORMER FRENCH FOREIGN MINISTER: THE WAR AGAINST SYRIA WAS PLANNED TWO YEARS BEFORE “THE ARAB SPRING”

19-06-2013 06:16:46 | | World News

In an interview with the French TV station LCP, former French minister
for Foreign Affairs Roland Dumas said:

” I’m going to tell you something. I was in England two years before
the violence in Syria on other business. I met with top British
officials, who confessed to me that they were preparing something
in Syria.

This was in Britain not in America. Britain was organizing an invasion
of rebels into Syria. They even asked me, although I was no longer
minister for foreign affairs, if I would like to participate.

Naturally, I refused, I said I’m French, that doesn’t interest me.”

Dumas went on give the audience a quick lesson on the real reason for
the war that has now claimed the lives of tens of thousands of people.

“This operation goes way back. It was prepared, preconceived and
planned… in the region it is important to know that this Syrian
regime has a very anti-Israeli stance.

Consequently, everything that moves in the region- and I have this from
the former Israeli prime minister who told me ‘we’ll try to get on with
our neighbours but those who don’t agree with us will be destroyed.

It’s a type of politics, a view of history, why not after all. But
one should know about it.”

Dumas is a retired French foreign minister who is obliged to use
discretion when revealing secrets which could affect French foreign
policy. That is why he made the statement ‘I am French, that doesn’t
interest me’. He could not reveal France’s role in the British plan
as he would be exposing himself to prosecution for revealing state
secrets.

There have been many disinformation agents in the British and
French press, many of them well known ‘leftist’ war correspondents
and commentators, who have tried to pretend that Israel secretly
supports Assad. Those who make such arguments are either stupid,
ignorant or deliberate disinformation agents of NATO and Israel.

Israel’s support for Al Qaeda militants in Syria has even been admitted
by the mainstream press. For example, Germany’s Die Welt newspaper
published a report on June 12th on Israel’s medical treatment of the
Al Qaeda fighters.

Israel planned this war of annihilation years ago in accordance with
the Yinon Plan, which advocates balkanization of all states that pose
a threat to Israel. The Zionist entity is using Britain and France
to goad the reluctant Obama administration into sending more American
troops to their death in Syria on behalf of Tel Aviv.

Of all the aggressor states against Syria, Israel has been the
quietest from the start. That is because Laurent Fabius, Francois
Holland, William Hague and David Cameron are doing their bidding by
attempting to drag Israel’s American Leviathan into another ruinous war
so that Israel can get control of the Middle East’s energy reserves,
eventually replacing the United States as the ruling state in the
world. It has also been necessary for Tel Aviv to remain silent so
as not to expose their role in the ‘revolutions’, given the fact that
the Jihadist fanatics don’t realize they are fighting for Israel.

This is the ideology of Zionism which cares no more for Jews than it
does for its perceived enemies. The Jewish colony is determined to
become a ruling state in the Middle East in the insane delusion that
this will enable it to replace the United States as a global hegemon,
once the US collapses fighting Israel’s wars.

Israeli Prime Minister once told American talk show host Bill Maher
that the reason why Israel always wins short conflicts, while the
United States gets bogged down in endless wars. ” The secret is that
we have America”, he said.

But Israel is itself slowly collapsing. If one excludes the enslaved
Palestinian population, the Jewish state still has the highest level
of poverty in the developed world with more and more Jews choosing
to leave the ‘promised’ land, a garrison state led by mad men,
an anti-Semitic entity threatening to engulf the world in war and
destruction. Israel cares no more about its own working class Jews
than any other ethnic community.

In fact, if the Likudnik crooks running the Israeli colony get their
way, working class Israelis will be among the first to pay as they are
conscripted to fight terrorists created by their own government. With
orthodox Jews protesting in the streets of New York against Israel and
Haredi Jewish minority opposing Israel’s rampant militarism, Zionism
is coming under increased attack from Jewish religious authorities and
non-Zionist Jews both inside and outside of the occupied territories.

This is not the first time that Roland Dumas has spoken out against
wars of aggression waged by successive French regimes. In 2011 he
revealed that he had been asked by the United States when he was
foreign minister in the Mitterrand administration to organize the
bombing of Libya. On that occasion the French refused to cooperate.

Dumas, a lawyer by profession, offered to defend Colonel Gaddafi,
at the International Criminal Court in the event of his arrest by Nato.

Dumas was also vocal in condemning France’s brutal neo-colonial bombing
of the Ivory Coast earlier in 2011, were death squads and terrorists
similar to those later deployed in Libya and Syria were unleashed
upon the Ivoirian population in order to install a IMF puppet dictator
Alassane Quattara in power. Gbagbo was described as one of the greatest
African leaders of the past 20 years by Jean Ziegler, sociologist and
former member of the Advisory Committee of the UN Human Rights Council.

Gbagbo had plans to nationalize banks and wrest control of
the country’s currency from the colonial finance institutions in
Paris. He also wanted to roll back many of the worst effects of IMF
restructuring by nationalizing industries and creating a functioning,
universal free health service. All of this threatened the interests
of French corporations in the former French colony. So, the Parisian
oligarchy went to work to find a suitable replacement as caretaker
of their Ivoirian colony.

They sent in armed terrorist gangs, or ‘rebel’s in the doublespeak
of imperialism, who murdered all before them while the French media
blamed president Gbagbo for the violence that ensued. Gbagbo and
Gaddafi had opposed Africom, the Pentagon’s plan to recolonize Africa.

That was another reason for the 2011 bombing of their two African
countries.

The formula is always the same. Imperialism backs ‘rebels’, whenever
its interests are threatened by regimes that love their country
more than foreign corporations. One should not forgot that during
the Spanish Civil War of 1936, General Franco and his cronies were
also ‘rebels’ and they, like their counterparts in Libya in 2011,
were bombed to power by foreign powers, replacing a progressive,
republican administration with fascism.

There are pro-Israeli fanatics in France who have used the analogy of
the Spanish Civil War as justification for intervention in Libya and
Syria. The pseudo-philosopher Henry Bernard Levy is one of them. Of
course, the ignoramus Levy doesn’t realize that the reason France,
England and the USA did not officially intervene in the Spanish Civil
War is because they were covertly helping the ‘rebels’ from the start.

They enabled arms shipments to the Francoist ‘rebels’ while preventing
arms deliveries to the Spanish government, who, like Syria today,
were helped by Moscow. Anyone who has studied the Spanish Civil War
knows that all the imperialist countries wanted Franco as a bulwark
against communism.

There is nothing imperialism loves more than a rebel without a cause.

What imperialism hates, however, are revolutionaries. That is why the
‘rebels’ which imperialism sends into other countries to colonize them
on behalf of foreign banks and corporations, have to be marketed as
‘revolutionaries’ in order to assure the support of the Monty Python
brigade of petty-bourgeois, ‘ leftist’ dupes such as Democracy Now!

and their ilk.

Dumas is not the only top French official to denounce the New World
Order. Former French ambassador to Syria Michel Raimbaud wrote a book
in 2012 entitled ‘Le Soudan dans tous les etats’, where he revealed
how Israel planned and instigated a civil war in South Sudan in
order to balkanize a country led by a pro-Palestinian government. He
also exposed the pro-Israeli media groups and ‘human rights’ NGOS who
created the ‘humanitarian’ narrative calling for military intervention
by the United States in the conflict.

The subject was covered extensively by African investigative journalist
Charles Onana in his 2009 book, Al-Bashir & Darfour LA CONTRE ENQUÊTE.

There are many more retired French officials who are speaking out
about the ruinous policies of this French government, including
the former head of French domestic intelligence Yves Bonnet. There
have also been reports of dissent in the French armed forces and
intelligence apparatus.

After the assassination of Colonel Gaddafi in October 2011, the
former French ambassador to Libya Christian Graeff told French radio
station France Culture that it was responsible for the diffusion of
lies and war propaganda on behalf of Nato throughout the war. Graeff
also warned the broadcasters that such disinformation could only work
on the minds of serfs but not in a country of free minds.

The power of the Israeli lobby in France is a subject rarely discussed
in polite circles. In France there is a law against questioning or
denial of the holocaust. However, denial of the Korean holocaust,
Guatemalan holocaust, Palestinian holocaust, Indonesian holocaust
and the dozens of other US/Israeli supported genocides is not only
perfectly legal but is the respectable norm.

The same lobby which introduced the Loi Gayssot in 1990, effectively
ending freedom of expression in France, would also like to ban any
independent investigations of genocides whose narratives they have
written, such as the Rwanda genocide, where Israel played a key role
in supporting the ‘rebels’ led by Paul Kagame, who invaded Rwanda from
Uganda from 1991 to 1994, leading to the genocide of both Tutus and
Tutsis. Many serious scholars have written about the Rwandan genocide,
which the Israel lobby repeatedly uses as a case study to justify
‘humanitarian’ intervention by Western powers. The Zionist thought
police would like to see such authors prosecuted for ‘negating’
imperialism’s disgusting lies on African conflicts.

Now, the Israeli Lobby is forcing the (their) French government to
prosecute twitter messages which the lobby deems ‘anti-Semitic’. This
is one further step towards the creation of a totalitarian state
where any criticism of imperialism, foreign wars, racism, oppression,
perhaps eventually capitalism itself could fall under the rubric of
‘anti-Semitism’.

These people are sick, and those who cow down to them are sicker.

Perhaps the etymology of sickness, a word cognate with the
German Sicherheit (security) according to dictionary.com, is not a
coincidence. For what is particularly sick about our society is the
cult of security, endless surveillance, ubiquitous cameras, the cult
of the all seeing eye, the prurient gaze as part of the incessant
discourse on terrorism by those who specialize in the training of
the very terrorists they claim to be protecting us from. Whether
or not the words security and sickness are linguistically related,
they are certainly cognate in a philosophical sense.

Roland Dumas and others like him should be highly commended for
having to guts to say what so many others are too morally corrupt,
too weak and cowardly to admit.

As the French government and its media agencies drum up hysteria
for war on Syria, Roland Dumas, now in the twilight of his years,
is warning people of the consequences of not understanding where
Israel is leading the world. Will enough people heed the warning?

– World News News from
Armenia and Diaspora – Noyan Tapan – See more at:

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Why Did Water Change Its Colour?- Video

WHY DID WATER CHANGE ITS COLOUR?- VIDEO

11:59 AM | TODAY | SOCIAL

Residents of Alaverdi, a city situated in the northeast of the
Armenian province of Lori, complain that the tap water smells extremely
unpleasant and musty and has strange colour.

However, the relevant authorities state that the routine laboratory
tests used in water-quality surveillance and quality control have
not detected changes in water quality.

“What is the cause?” say the residents.

For more details watch the video of Ankyun +3 TV Company.

http://www.a1plus.am/en/social/2013/06/19/jur

9-Year-Old Armenian Child Needs Help For Treatment Abroad

9-YEAR-OLD ARMENIAN CHILD NEEDS HELP FOR TREATMENT ABROAD

14:53 ~U 19.06.13

9-year-old Suren Sahakyan needs help. His diagnosis is acute regal
failure and polycystic kidney.

The treatment requires $20,000 to $25,000, and the child’s parents
keep on struggling for his life, hoping for a miracle.

The child’s mother Liana Badeyan told Tert.am that the child’s state
is very grave and requires immediate kidney transplantation in a
foreign clinic.

“Local doctors say my child is too young and they cannot operate
on him. Also, the sale of kidneys is prohibited in Armenia,” Liana
Badeyan says.

The child’s parents cannot be donors for medical reasons.

“So we are trying to go abroad, but we need money and we are seeking
help. My child’s life depends on those wishing to help,” Liana
Badeyan says.

“The government may mediate and we turn to the Red Cross. May be a
sponsor is found. But a sponsor can hardly be found to cover all the
expenses. May be they cover part of the expenses,” she says.

Below are the bank accounts:

VTB-Bank Armenia AMD 16040054123300 USD 16040054123301 EUR
16040054123302 RUR 16040054123303

Recipient: Liana Noravand Badeyan

http://www.tert.am/en/news/2013/06/19/child-kidney-disfunction/

Pashinyan To Control Chamber Head: "Pot Calling The Kettle Black"

PASHINYAN TO CONTROL CHAMBER HEAD: “POT CALLING THE KETTLE BLACK”
Grisha Balasanyan

During an ongoing parliamentary hearing on the Control Chamber’s
activities last year regarding cases of misuse of government
expenditures, MP Nikol Pashinyan redirected the focus on the oversight
department head himself, Ishkhan Zakaryan.

Pashinyan, in no subtle terms, voiced suspicions as to the source
of funds that Zakaryan used to build a multi-million dollar private
residence over the past nine months.

“Nine months ago, Ishkhan Zakaryan was giving a report in the
parliament about the abuses of others and today, nine months later,
he is doing the same,” Pashinyan said.

The opposition MP called on his colleagues to take a closer look at
the biography of Zakaryan since they will not find one episode that
would not raise the specter of suspicion regarding the construction
of such an expensive mansion.

“I am amazed how Ishkhan Zakaryan can stand her and make heroic
statements regarding the abuses of others. They too have built private
homes like Zakaryan, but I’m sure that many of them could only dream
about having such a luxurious one,” Pashinyan said.

The MP argued that all these recent exposes on government abuse are a
direct reflection on the government of Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan
who, after being implicated in an off-shore scandal, is wasting no
time in speaking about the need to combat corruption.

http://hetq.am/eng/news/27441/pashinyan-to-control-chamber-head-pot-calling-the-kettle-black.html