"Organized provocation": Speaker Alen Simonyan

ArmInfo.Armenian National Assembly Speaker Alen Simonyan insists that incident in central Yerevan yesterday, where he swore at a citizen and demanded that he be brought in, was an organized provocation.

"I believe that this was all organized, and I know who orchestrated  it. I believe that as the elections approach, we will see more   incidents like this," Simonyan told reporters outside the office of  the ruling 'Civil Contract" party on March 27.

Simonyan believes there are two or three entities that can judge  whether his behavior was proportionate.  The first is law enforcement  agencies, the second is the citizenry of the Republic of Armenia, the  people of the Republic of Armenia, and the third is the "Civil  Contract" party. "If my party discovers a violation, it will report  it. There is no such discussion at the moment," the NA Speaker  stated.

"Stop saying, 'You are officials, you are the NA Speaker,' and  thinking that Alen and others can say anything. Let no one be  deceived about our upbringing," the Speaker of the Armenian  Parliament said.  "This was a provocation orchestrated by a political  entity," Alen Simonyan concluded.