“Haykakan Zhamanak”: Artsvik Minasyanis sure they didn’t violate anything

National Assembly’s (NA) Ethics Committee tomorrow will examine the petition submitted against Prosperous Armenia Party MP Karo Karapetyan, Haykakan Zhamanak daily writes.
“But it is not yet clear as to when the petition submitted against Dashnaktsutyun Party MP Artsvik Minasyan and ruling Republican Party RPA-member and NA Deputy Speaker Eduard Sharmazanov will be examined. The petition against them was submitted by Armenia’s PINK gay and lesbian NGO, and in connection with these two MPs’ statements made with respect to the blast at Yerevan’s DIY Club, which is alleged to be a gay club. Artsvik Minasyan said the following concerning the petition submitted against him: ‘I believe the more we disregard such organizations, the better because such NGOs launch operations more toward increasing their own profits—especially from foreign organizations and persons—rather than toward creating real values. I can say one thing confidently, and that is either Sharmazanov or I have not only not violated any constitutional norm, but we also have directly behaved by the very same Constitution-envisioned approach of the MP’s [right to] openly express conscience, conviction, and personal view,’” Haykakan Zhamanak quotes the MP as saying.