No legal grounds for including report on circumstances of 44-day war  in Nagorno-Karabakh on NA agenda 

ArmInfo.The failure to include the report of the parliamentary commission investigating the circumstances of the 44-day war in Nagorno-Karabakh on the agenda of the National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia requires special  comment. RA NA Speaker Alen Simonyan told reporters on October 1.

It was previously reported that the speaker refused to include the  report on the NA agenda, suggesting that the authorities are  deliberately taking this step to prevent negative consequences from  the discussions in light of the ongoing normalization process between  Armenia and Azerbaijan.

"It's not about me, it's about the comments. In cases where the  question is, 'What should I, you, or someone else do?' They contact  the relevant bodies authorized to comment on such situations.  Specifically, this concerns whether a particular proposal should be  commented on as presented, or in a slightly different way.  These  actions have already been taken, and I already have all the  responses. Thus, I have responses from the National Assembly  Committee on State and Legal Affairs, the National Assembly Legal  Department, and my legal background, all of which are identical and  indicate that there are no legal grounds for including the issue on  the parliamentary agenda," the speaker said.

He noted that there is a law, the "Rules of Procedure of the National  Assembly," whose provisions must be relied upon. "Commission Chairman  Andranik

Kocharyan can comment on the situation in his own way, with his own  approaches and wishes; that is his right, but I will not be guided by  case law," the NA Speaker noted, assuring that the report will  definitely be presented to the country's parliament. Simonyan refuted  Andranik Kocharyan's own claims that the report had been sent to the  Speaker as early as September 3.

Responding to a question about whether the parliamentary leadership's  refusal to discuss the issue was the wish of Prime Minister Nikol  Pashinyan, Simonyan recalled that it was Pashinyan and the Civil  Contract Party that had brought the report into being. The Speaker  emphasized that the report would be presented sooner or later,  whether at a plenary session of the National Assembly or through  parliamentary hearings.

According to available information, Simonyan's decision sparked a  heated reaction within the faction and led to strong discontent from  Defense Committee Chairman Andranik Kocharyan, who was leading the  work of the temporary body. Kocharyan insists that the Speaker has no  right to make such a decision. Nevertheless, Simonyan remains  adamant.