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Armenia 2nd President’s office: 45 MPs joined signature campaign in Kocharyan’s defense

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Armenia 2nd President’s office: 45 MPs joined signature campaign in Kocharyan’s defense

At the moment, 45 lawmakers have joined the signature campaign to commute the court decision on remanding Armenia’s second President Robert Kocharyan in custody.

Viktor Soghomonyan, the head of Kocharyan’s office, told about the aforementioned to Armenian News-NEWS.am.

He added that the signature campaign was still in progress and that once it was concluded, the final list of the signatory MPs will be made public.

The signature campaign was launched by the National Assembly faction of the former ruling Republican Party of Armenia.

Soghomonyan noted, however, that the date for the court hearing on the appeal against the remanding of Kocharyan in custody was still not known.

As reported earlier, a charge has been brought against second President of Armenia Robert Kocharyan, former Defense Minister Mikayel Harutyunyan, and incumbent Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) Secretary General and Armenia’s former Deputy Defense Minister Yuri Khachaturov, within the framework of the criminal case into the tragic events that transpired in capital city Yerevan on March 1 and 2, 2008—and under Article 300.1 Paragraph 1 of the Criminal Code; that is, breaching ...

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