AURELIA GRIGORIU WAS CAUGHT IN LYING DURING PRESS CONFERENCE
19:06 09/07/2013 ” REGION
Today on her arrival in Moldova the Parliamentary Advocate Aurelia
Grigoriu called a press conference in connection with the scandal
connected with her presentation in the parliament, where she presented
the Azerbaijani version of Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, completely
ignoring the position of the Armenian side.
It is noteworthy that Gregory attended the press conference accompanied
by a lawyer who interfered those asking questions, interrupted and
made long speeches. In the end, the journalists could not stand it
and offered the lawyer to convene his own press conference and act
as he wants and to stop interfering the work of the journalists.
Grigoriu chose the tactics of complete denial of her guilt in the
erupted scandal, blaming the Armenian side. She also refused to
apologize in response to a fair call of the representatives of the
Armenian Diaspora, saying that she has not offended anyone.
Representative of Armenian community Sergei Osipyan noted, “You
covered the issue one-sidedly and you realized it deep in your heart.
If I were you, I would apologize. You have become a tool of
propaganda.”
In the same time Grigoriu denied disinformation of the Azerbaijani
media according to which she allegedly had to “barricade herself from
the raging crowds that had surrounded her hotel.” She noted that
“the Armenian authorities undertook measures for her security and
kept the order.” The ombudsman also failed to explain why she did
not apply to the police having received threats by phone.
The Ombudsman failed also to answer the question of the blogger
and political scientist Ernest Vardanyan, in which of the four UN
resolutions, which Gregoriu had referred to in her speech, she had
met anything written about “million refugees”, “20% of the occupied
territories” and “Khojalu”. The confused ombudsman replied that it
is not about the resolutions of 1993 but the resolution of the UN
General Assembly on 14 March 2007.
In reality, she rather meant the resolution of 2008, which she speaks
of in her speech, but as far as Mrs. Grigoriu is not familiar neither
with the content of the resolutions, nor the context, then it seems to
be quite normal for her to confuse them. However, it does not matter,
because even in that resolution there is no and there cannot be such
a text. That is, Moldovan Ombudsman deliberately misleads the public.
Grigoriu answered numerous comments about the fact that instead of
focusing on problems of human rights in Moldova, she had devoted much
of her speech to the problems of that region, which is irrelevant to
her country, she said that she was not allowed to speak till the end.
Aurelia Gregoriu “also did not have time” to, allegedly, tell about
the massacre of Armenians in Maragha.
She lied once again saying that on her Facebook page the full text
of her speech is published, where allegedly there are theses on the
Armenian refugees from Baku, Sumgait and Kirovabad; this is not true.
When she was objected by the journalists who noted that the video
of her speech clearly showed that she misused the regulated time,
and she was to start her speech with the arrests in Transdniestria,
and not by calling “occupation” the thing which in Moldova is called
“reforms”, the Ombudsman continued to insist that she was not allowed
to speak, and promised to provide the video” later “.
Grigoriu did not deny the fact of her participation in the conference
held in Baku on the eve of her visit to Yerevan. She also confessed
that she did not raise the issue of political prisoners, for example,
with her colleague Ilgar Mammadov and did not make a speech on
violations of the rights of the Armenians in the Nagorno-Karabakh
conflict, the pogroms in Baku and Sumgait. She noted that the theme
of her report was different.
Grigoriu also refused to comment on the fact that the theses of her
report repeat word for word the propaganda text, published by the
Azerbaijani Embassy in Moldova on the website of the Azerbaijani
community. Meanwhile, she noted, that she is not going to resign,
despite the rumors about her being politically biased in favor of
Azerbaijan.
“Ombudsman is the person who is always barking like a dog,” Aurelia
Grigoriu described herself.
Source: Panorama.am