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Opposition MP brushes off authorities' explanation over decision to deny entry to Mourad Papazian

panorama.am07/22nd/2022, 12:24
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Opposition MP brushes off authorities' explanation over decision to deny entry to Mourad Papazian

The Armenian authorities on Friday issued an explanation regarding the decision to deny entry to French-Armenian community leader Mourad (Franck) Papazian, Armenpress reports.

The Prime Minister’s Office said that Papazian, Chairman of the Coordination Council of Armenian Organizations of France (CCAF) and a citizen of France, was barred from entering Armenia under the domestic law because he was among those who “organized the attack” on the official motorcade of the Armenian PM’s delegation in France earlier in June, 2021.

“The said person was denied entry into the Republic of Armenia based on Clause G and Z, Article 8 of the law on foreign nationals. This person is one of the organizers of the attack on the official motorcade – displaying the state flag of Armenia – of the governmental delegation led by the Prime Minister near the Armenian Embassy in France on June 1 last year.

“Various objects and items were thrown in the direction of the motorcade. The official Armenian flag-bearing car carrying the Prime Minister was attacked and the situation was resolved only as a result of intervention by French police and security forces,” Pashinyan’s office said.

Speaking to Panorama.am, ARF Supreme Body member and opposition Hayastan bloc MP Gegham Manukyan dismissed the authorities’ explanation as “disgraceful”.

"It is hard to imagine a more disgraceful explanation that the Armenian authorities could ever offer regarding a Diaspora public figure or an Armenian citizen,” he said, adding it points to the authorities’ “vengeful attit...

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