No one has a right to disgrace citizen of Armenia, vice speaker says
16.07.2013,
15:50
No one has a right to disgrace an Armenian citizen, Armenian parliament vice speaker Eduard Sharmazanov said Tuesday as he commented the situation around the alleged culprit of the accident on a Moscow highway, Novosti-Armenia reported.
YEREVAN, July 16./ARKA/. No one has a right to disgrace an Armenian citizen, Armenian parliament vice speaker Eduard Sharmazanov said Tuesday as he commented the situation around the alleged culprit of the accident on a Moscow highway, Novosti-Armenia reported.
The truck, loaded with 10 tons of crushed stones, toppled over while entering a highway in southwestern Moscow on Saturday, careening into the bus and practically tearing it in two killing 18 people. Thirty-one of the 64 people on the bus remained hospitalized as of Monday, 12 of them in serious condition. The truck driver, Hrachya Harutyunyan, was arrested Monday.
Ombudsman of Armenia Karen Andreasyan addressed a letter to his Russian counterpart Vladimir Lukin on Tuesday. Particularly, Andreasyan requested Lukin to make clarifications around disrespectful attitude shown to Harutyunyan as he appeared in the court room in a housecoat.
“If he (Harutyunyan) is found to be guilty, he should be punished for sure, but no one has a right to disgrace Armenian citizen, as any other citizen as well,” Sharmazanov told reporters.
Appealing to the reporters not to exaggerate the matter, the vice speaker noted he had already contacted his Russian colleague.
“Official Yerevan, Ministry of Foreign Affairs are dealing with this issue,” he added.—0-
