Nikol Pashinyan about Vardan Oskanyan’s and Levon Zurabyan’s conversation record

Nikol Pashinyan of the opposition Armenian National Congress (ANC) has voiced criticism over the intercepted video record featuring a private meeting between two parliament members.

In a statement on his personal website, Pashinyan urges for strict accountability measures against those who intercepted and uploaded to YouTube the conversation between the head of the ANC faction in parliament, Levon Zurabyan, and ex-Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian.

Strictly condemning what he calls a KGB-style unlawful act, Pashinyan calls for opening a proceeding under article 146 of Armenia’s Criminal Code (Violation of the secrecy of correspondence, telephone conversations, postal, telegraph or other communications.)

In the meantime, he asks the ANC members and the representatives of other opposition forces to demonstrate restraint to fulfill their obligations to the public.

Pashinyan thinks that the existing political situation makes the presidential nomination of their leader, Armenia’s first President Levon Ter-Petrosyan, necessary.