Wednesday, June 23 2021 14:18

ArmInfo.Premier candidate from the "I Have Honor" bloc, chairman of the Motherland party and former head of the National Security Service of Armenia Artur Vanetsyan in the  speech of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan did not hear the note of  reconciliation. "I heard a stream of threats, in a more beautiful  design," he said at a June 23 press conference.

According to Vanetsyan, if Pashinyan is really inclined to dialogue  with the opposition political forces, then this should be shown not  in words, but in actions. "Our attitude towards Nikol Pashinyan will  be mirrored - if we see changes in his behavior - he becomes a  statesman, then we will reconsider our logic," he said. At the same  time, according to the leader of the bloc, this does not mean that "I  Have the Honor" will be at enmity with the current government, since  it believes that "one must not look for enemies inside the country."

Referring to Pashinyan's threats that the mechanism of confiscation  of illegally acquired property has been launched and invited all  those who illegally enriched themselves at the expense of the state  to start negotiations for the return of the plundered, Artur  Vanetsyan said that these words should worry those who illegally  enriched themselves. "I do not have illegally acquired property and I  am not rich enough to return anything," said the former head of the  National Security Service of Armenia.  When asked whether "I Have  Honor" to cooperate with Robert Kocharian's Hayastan bloc and the  current government, Vanetsyan said that they did not communicate with  Kocharian after the elections, and they were not ready to cooperate  with Pashinyan.

Recall that the acting Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, whose "Civil  Contract" party won a convincing victory in the early parliamentary  elections, held a meeting with its supporters on Republic Square on  the day after the elections on June 21.  Pashinyan, during his  speech, invited all political forces to start acting from a new  simple point, to abandon the vocabulary of foul language. He also  said that he will start conducting with all political forces that are  ready to conduct a dialogue for the future of Armenia.  On June 22,  at a press conference, the second president of Armenia, leader of the  Hayastan bloc ("Armenia" - ed. note) Robert Kocharian stated that he  did not see the hand of reconciliation extended by Pashinyan. "This  government lied so much that it cannot be trusted," he said, adding  that Pashinyan says one thing, immediately after him, the members of  his team - another. Such words, according to Kocharian, are aimed at  the outside world.