Thursday, October 5 2017 12:03

ArmInfo. Another brawl occurred in the Armenian parliament - this time the Republican Party Deputy, the 70-year-old Artashes Geghamyan and the head of the  opposition bloc faction "Elk" Nikol Pashinyan agreed in hand-to-hand fight.

Hand-to-hand happened in the foyer of the National Assembly, it is  noteworthy that the pensioner Artashes Geghamyan became its  initiator. And it all began with the fact that in his speech on the  agreement between Armenia and Russia on the procedure for monitoring  the availability and targeted use of military products supplied under  the Treaty between the two countries on the development of  military-technical cooperation, Pashinyan appealed to Geghamyan.  Pashinyan, in particular, sharply criticized this agreement and  Geghamyan, zealously defending this document. In his speech,  Pashinyan called Geghamyan an adherent of communism and called on him  to speak exclusively on the themes of Marxism-Leninism, and not on  international agreements.

Insulted to the depths of his soul by his sarcastic speech, Geghamyan  decided to find out the relationship with Pashinyan in the foyer of  the National Assembly and rushed at him with his fists, demanding  that he no longer mention his name in vain, or in his speeches. After  the incident on his Facebook page, Pashinyan wrote: "Geghamyan  pounced on me with his fists, I successfully struck him off, I even  managed to clean my shoes on him." And the deputy from the block  "Elk" Gevorg Gorgisyan after a brawl from the rostrum of the  parliament called on the Republican Party to pacify its deputies.  "There was such a situation that the RPA should give out some  straitjackets to some of its deputies instead of the mandate," he  said.

The agreement between Armenia and Russia on the procedure for  monitoring the availability and targeted use of military products  supplied under the Treaty between the two countries on the  development of military-technical cooperation was signed on October  3, 2016 in Yerevan. It is a logical continuation of the agreement "On  the development of military-technical cooperation", signed on June  25, 2013. According to the document, Armenia will be obliged to  produce at the request of the Russian Federation the necessary  documentation confirming the targeted use of Russian military  products supplied to the country. Another article provides that the  purpose of supervision is to check the availability and targeted use  of products supplied by contracts entered into under the treaty. The  party, on whose territory the military products are supplied, is  obliged to submit the military products indicated in the application,  as well as the documents necessary for confirming its intended use.

The agreement is also subject to armaments coming to Armenia within  the framework of a Russian loan of $ 200 million. According to Deputy  Defense Minister Artak Zakaryan, Russia has supplied arms to Armenia  at prices significantly lower than in the world market. "The  correlation between the volume of purchased weapons and the payments  made shows that we were able, according to the agreement, to conclude  contracts on Russian domestic market prices, and sometimes below it,  and to make appropriate deliveries," the deputy minister said. He  assured that the provisions specified in the agreement were fully  implemented.

Representatives of the ruling party amicably supported the agreement,  but the opposition bloc "Elk", speaking for the withdrawal of Armenia  from the Eurasian Economic Union, strongly opposed. In particular,  the head of the bloc faction Nikol Pashinyan stated that with this  and other similar documents, Russia bit by bit takes away sovereignty  from Armenia. "It came to the point that we must now report to it  before using any weapons. And you asked if similar documents exist  between Russia and Azerbaijan," Pashinyan said.  To this the head of  the parliamentary commission on defense, national security and  internal affairs, republican Koryun Nahapetyan replied that such  documents are an international legal norm. "There is an international  practice in which the producing country can subsequently monitor the  use of exported weapons," he explained.