Hayastan faction fails investigative commission`s work - MP

ArmInfo.  In fact, the Hayastan faction successfully failed both the case of blocking the streets and the work of the investigative commission it initiated to study the  appropriateness of using the funds transferred by the Hayastan  All-Armenian Fund to the RA state budget during the 44-day war. This  opinion was expressed by the deputy of the ruling Civil Contract  faction, deputy head of the standing committee on economic issues  Babken Tunyan. 

During the 44-day war, the Hayastan Fund collected $170 million in  donations from all over the world.  Most of these funds, about $107  million (52 billion 703 million drams) were transferred to the RA  government, with the condition that these funds would be used to  finance infrastructure, social, and healthcare programs. The decision  was made without the participation of all members of the Board of  Trustees, including the former presidents of the Republic of Armenia  and Artsakh, moreover, no invitation to participate was sent to them.  Later, only Robert Kocharyan, of the members of the Board, raised  this issue and noted that the executive board of the Hayastan  All-Armenian Fund should report to the Board of Trustees. In this  regard, in October 2021, a temporary parliamentary commission was  created to study the feasibility of using the funds transferred by  the Hayastan All-Armenian Fund to the state budget of the Republic of  Armenia.

The day before, Pashinyan demanded that the opposition faction report  on the results of the commission's work. "Wasn't Artsvik Minasyan  (Secretary of the Hayastan NA faction) the head of this investigative  commission? Where is their report? Let them write and sign that they  stole, and we will know what to do next. We will beautifully file a  lawsuit and force them to claim the opposite," Pashinyan said at a  government meeting on June 12.

"Not only did we not resist, but on the contrary, we welcomed and  were involved in the work of the commission so that all questions of  concern to the public would be answered," Tunyan wrote on a social  network.

According to him, the Investigative Commission held several meetings  under the chairmanship of Artsvik Minasyan, after which the  parliamentary opposition lost interest in the initiative it had  created.

"The commission was created for a period of 6 months and by the end  of the term it had to either complete its work and present a  conclusion, or it had to propose extending the work of the commission  for another 6 months.

However, in April 2022, the Hayastan faction deputies were busy  blocking streets (political boycott) and did not show up for the  National Assembly session to make such a proposal. And the  commission, as such, ceased to exist," the pro-government deputy  noted.

Babken Tunyan noted that he addressed this topic because Prime  Minister Nikol Pashinyan himself had spoken about it the day before,  and the head of Robert Kocharyan's office, Bagrat Mikoyan, instead of  talking about the main topic - .

"That's the whole story and style of our opposition. Talk about  something, make accusations, create a commission to prove them, then  deactivate it and actually fail, then talk about the same thing  again>," the pro-government MP summed up.

The day before, Bagrat Mikoyan, the head of the second president's  office, gave Yerevan.Today a comment on the topic, stating that $100  million from the Hayastan All-Armenian Fund had disappeared before  everyone's eyes, and at a time when he (Pashinyan) was both the prime  minister and a member of the fund's Board of Trustees. , - he  emphasized.