ArmInfo. Chairman of the National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia Alen Simonyan does not intend to comment on the statement of the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova, who called on Armenian parliamentarians to show the Russian authorities the list of citizens killed during the provocation in Bucha.
"I don't want to comment on this lie. It was reported that an Armenian delegation was allegedly sent to Bucha. There was no our delegation there. But if they are interested, we can provide Maria Zakharova or the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, with the involvement of the press service of the National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia, a list of more than 200 Armenians who died in Nagorno- Karabakh as a result of the latest military actions, we can also provide a list of over 100 thousand of our compatriots who became refugees from Nagorno-Karabakh, where Russian troops carried out a peacekeeping operation," the speaker said.
At the same time, the head of parliament noted that he does not comment on absurdities and lies.
To the question that there was a delegation, and it included the head of the administrative district of Yerevan Nor Nork Tigran Margaryan and the Ambassador of the Republic of Armenia to Ukraine Vladimir Karapetyan, the speaker noted that he would forward the request to the Nor Nork district so that its leader would officially inform about visit. But, as Simonyan noted, there was no official parliamentary delegation of Armenia in Bucha, and no. "It cannot be that a NA deputy went somewhere, much less met with someone, and the leadership of the parliament, not to mention a group of deputies, was not aware of this. There must be a corresponding order for this," the speaker said.
According to Russian media reports, on the sidelines of SPIEF, journalists asked Zakharova to comment on the visit of Armenian officials to Bucha. Commenting on this issue, the Russian diplomat expressed confidence that the Ukrainian authorities have prepared background documents for the Armenian delegation regarding what happened there. "Surely the parliamentary delegation of Armenia has a list of victims, which the Kiev regime allegedly attributed to the Russian army, that it was the Russian side that killed these people. We really hope that the Armenian side will share the list with the Russian side. For two years we have not been able to achieve that organizations, including The UN provided this data," she said.
On June 2, the head of the Yerevan administrative district of Nor-Nork, Tigran Ter-Margaryan, accompanied by the Ambassador of Armenia to Ukraine Vladimir Karapetyan, visited Bucha and donated humanitarian aid and medicines to the city's medical institutions.