Armenian parliamentarian: "Azerbaijan tries to prove that there are parallels of violence between the Balkans and Nagorno Karabakh"

"I share the opinion of the politicians, who consider that collection of signatures for bringing Robert Kocharyan to Hague tribunal is a nonsense", said Ashotyan. He noted that legally the collection of signatures can be called absurd as the international Hague tribune can only consider cases of the countries, which have ratified the Roman statute.

"Armenia signed the statute, but not ratified it, which means that it is not the territory falling within the scope of the Hague tribunal", said Ahotyan, noting that opposition leaders should have known it. Ashotyan added that there is a low possibility to initiate any criminal case through the mediation of the UN Security Council, which makes the activity of the opposition even more absurd.

Ashotyan called the said initiative of the opposition absurd from the political point of view. "Azerbaijan tries to mislead the world society and show that that there are parallels between the Balkans and Nagorno Karabakh in the sense of violence and crimes against humanity", said Ashotyan adding that this issue has already been reflected in the Azerbaijani press and the Azerbaijani officials will make use of this opportunity.

"The statements of the opposition, which say that velvet revolution will occur in Armenia on August 1 can not be taken seriously", said Ashotyan adding that the peak of opposition's energy has passed and opposition makes statements only for propaganda".

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