Sharmazanov: I do not understand investigation officers` haste to arrest Kocharyan

ArmInfo. "I consider it  unreasonable and illogical the investigation's proposal to choose  arrest for RA former President Robert Kocharyan as a preventive  measure." Eventually, Kocharyan himself appeared for questioning,  stated that he intended to remain until the end of the investigation  and answer all questions. I do not understand haste of the  investigation bodies in an attempt to apply arrest against second  president of Armenia, the first president of Artsakh, a man who made  a great contribution to the liberation struggle of the NKR and to the  development of Armenia, Spokesperson of the Republican Party, Deputy  Speaker of the parliament Eduard Sharmazanov said in a conversation  with the correspondent of ArmInfo.

"Kocharyan was not afraid of enemy bullets at the time, and now he is  unlikely to be afraid of the investigation, so the hasty intention to  arrest him is not clear for me," the Spokesman said, while agreeing  to some extent with Kocharyan's opinion that the recent processes  around him may pursue the goal of preventing the possible  participation of the second president in the forthcoming political  processes, in particular, early parliamentary elections.

Sharmazanov did not exclude manifestations of personal and political  motives in the case on the events of March 1, 2008. "However, if this  is so, then such manifestations can have extremely negative  consequences for the state," he said. The Deputy Speaker also  stressed that there are many questions in the legal process, which,  at the very least, cause misunderstanding. "Thus, Article 140 of the  Constitution of Armenia envisages that the head of state can not be  prosecuted during his/her tenure and after that for actions arising  from his office." Now the question is whether the announcement of the  state of emergency during the March 2008 events was within the limits  of Kocharyan's authority? In addition, he was charged with  overthrowing the Constitutional order, which he himself was the  guarantor of when he was president. How could a person who was a  guarantor of the constitutional order, to overthrow it himself? There  is another point that causes a legal casus - Kocharyan is charged  under an article that was adopted a year after his resignation. I  think that all these dubious points should be solved by the  investigation, which hopefully will be fair and objective,  "Sharmazanov summed up. 

Touching upon the accusation against the CSTO Secretary General Yuri  Khachaturov, who in 2008 occupied the post of the head of the Yerevan  garrison, Sharmazanov noted that it could cast a shadow on Armenia's  image in the CSTO, and at other international platforms.