Opposition accuses EU of double standards

ArmInfo. The opposition movement held a picket in front of the EU Embassy in Armenia in order to convey a written appeal to the Ambassador, Ms. Andrea Wiktorin,  demanding to respond to the recent events related to the incident  between law enforcement officers and protesters.

During the rally, MP from the "Armenia" faction Aram Vardevanyan  recalled that on June 3, not far from the EU diplomatic mission,  police officers used a stun grenade against members of the opposition  movement without warning, as a result of which numerous citizens were  injured, receiving injuries of varying severity. At the same time, he  expressed surprise at the fact that to this day the EU Embassy has  not issued a statement in connection with the incident that occurred  the day before. The parliamentarian also pointed to the use of brute  disproportionate force not only against the protesters, but also  against media representatives.

Having read until the end the statement of the Resistance Movement,  addressing the EU Ambassador Ms.  Wiktorin, Vardevanyan stressed that  he expects a proper reaction from her side.

At the same time, he noted that, as a lawyer, he attaches importance  to the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental  Freedoms. "I believed in its reality, I believed that the EU should  also believe in and defend this Convention," the parliamentarian  said. "I cannot understand the silence on the part of the European  Union, when days earlier all the rights enshrined in this Convention  were violated, and political persecution is being carried out against  my associates," he said. In this context, Vardevanyan described what  is happening as a policy of "double standards", which, in his  opinion, is the most unacceptable. He recalled that in 2018, on every  occasion during the Velvet Revolution, representatives of the  European Embassy made statements several times a day, and today they  are silent, thereby encouraging the atrocities of law enforcement  officers.

It should be noted that after the picket near the building of the EU  Embassy, the demonstrators went to France Square.