Eduard Sharmazanov: Clarification of relations in parliament with the help of fists is unacceptable

ArmInfo. The clarification of  relations in parliament with the help of fists is unacceptable. Vice  Speaker of the National Assembly Eduard Sharmazanov said this in a  conversation with ArmInfo correspondent, referring to the fight  between the head of the Yelk bloc faction Nikol Pashinyan and the  deputies from the Republican Party of Armenia Artashes Geghamen.

At the same time, he noted that the participants of the fight  themselves very inconsistently comment on the incident. "So,  Geghamyan claims that he did not touch Pashinyan, and Pashinyan says  the opposite: as vice speaker of the parliament, I call on deputies  to behave correctly and in the hall of meetings, and keep  parliamentary ethics," Sharmazanov said. However, he noted, this does  not always work, quarrels occur and both sides are guilty, as this is  a mutual process.

This morning in the Armenian parliament there was another fight -  this time the Republican Party Deputy, the 70-year-old Artashes  Gehamyan and the head of the opposition bloc faction "Yelk" Nikol  Pashinyan met in hand-to-hand. The fight happened in the foyer of the  National Assembly, it is noteworthy that the pensioner Artashes  Geghamyan became its initiator. And it all began with the fact that  in his speech on the agreement between Armenia and Russia on the  procedure for monitoring the availability and targeted use of  military products supplied under the Treaty between the two countries  on the development of military- technical cooperation, Pashinyan  appealed to Geghamyan. Pashinyan, in particular, sharply criticized  this agreement and Geghamian, zealously defending this document. In  his speech, Pashinyan called Geghamyan an adherent of communism and  called on him to speak exclusively on the themes of Marxism-Leninism,  and not on international agreements. Insulted to the depths of his  soul by his sarcastic speech, Geghamyan decided to find out the  relationship with Pashinyan in the foyer of the National Assembly and  rushed at him with his fists, demanding that he no longer mention his  name in vain, that is, in his speeches. After the incident on his  Facebook page, Pashinyan wrote: "Geghamyan pounced on me with his  fists, I successfully struck him off, I even managed to clean my  shoes on him." And the deputy from the block "Elk" Gevorg Gorgisyan  after a brawl from the rostrum of the parliament called on the  Republican Party to pacify its deputies. "There was such a situation  that the RPA should give out some straitjackets to some of its  deputies instead of the mandate," he said. Meanwhile, Geghamyan  assured himself that he did not touch Pashinyan, and the fact that he  had a reddened face was explained by the deputy with a sense of shame  experienced by the head of the Yelk for improper behavior.