After our announcement yesterday to prepare a draft law on vetting, the restless movements have already started. The chairman of the Public Council Styopa Safaryan announced.
“At least two lawyers of the RA Chamber of Advocates, Yervand Varosyan and Aleksander Kochubayev, have expressed” concerns. “Both of these lawyers no longer hide that they carry out political activities under the name of advocacy, according to which, in favor of a very famous group. But it is also a right and their choice.
Yervand Varosyan expressed strong “concern” that my initiative was prompted by the authorities. I disappoint him at once. It reminded us of our naivety last year, when the NA hearings were convened, it seemed that the government would carry out the vetting process, and we naively decided to wait for the final result and only last spring we learned that vetting is for the future and soft… And if honestly, with vetting, military industry, my greatest motivation to engage in it was the war, when I realized on the skin and with the holy blood shed by our brothers that the impunity of robbery from the army and the budget has played a big role in the past decades, not to prevent them from turning into weapons, air defense, UAVs, but castles… and to leave us unprepared to face the war. They were fueled by the conversation of the parents who lost their sons and my conversation that their sons were martyred because the army had been robbed … Here is my motivation, lawyers. Do not look for it in my and the Prime Minister’s “shadow communications”. They do not exist… Do not believe it, you can ask your close circle, who are aware of the theft of my phone, because they grabbed it as if to read my and Nikol Pashinyan’s “correspondence” and shook the universe, and they were disappointed because they found out that there is no telephone or SMS, messenger, correspondence or instructions between the Prime Minister and me… Ask, they will confirm. They found out… So the customer of the vetting is my conscience, and desire of most of my people, and the payer is me and my institute, without any other donor, although some compatriots from the Diaspora expressed such readiness…
And if you are concerned about the decision made by your client Zaruhi Nakhshkaryan, then I must say that you have grounds. Soon, in a few days, the public will be informed how the whole image of the video shown and watched as evidence was distorted in the courtroom and a big falsification was invented according to the wish and demand. But I assure you, the decision made against me, which will initiate disciplinary proceedings, which will be appealed to the ECtHR, is a small detail for me to be under this burden. It’s about a few pennies. And I and the majority of the society are concerned about much more serious matters, which were, are and will be crucial for the state. Otherwise, insult, slander and petty hooliganism…
By the way, 2 dozen lawyers already have been included and will be included as well. Since you have already declared the seats of some judges loyal and trustworthy to you “the last trench of statehood”, we will suggest that you also form an anti-vetting front. Personally, for me and many others, this natural lustration and vetting will be very important… We will not spend extra time and resources on it…
And in the coming days there will be our first discussion on vetting, about which the public will know in full volume what problems we are raising.
In the future, my answer to all this will be mainly by work, and not in response to opinions,” he wrote on his Facebook page.
