HHK invites Levon Ter-Petrosyan to teach (video)
The political school of the Republican Party is ready to invite Levon Ter-Petrosyan to read lectures, said Armen Ashotyan, Vice President of the Republican Party of Armenia, “It will be honor for us if First President agrees to teach at our school.” But it is known that First President describes years of Republican Party’s government as kleptocracy headed by Serzh Sargsyan. Is Head of the school Armen Ashotyan ready to hear such thoughts in the institution headed by him, “Levon Ter-Petrosyan, if he admits our invitation, will have as much academic freedom as any other lecturer.” But if Ter-Petrosyan agrees to teach in the Republican Party’s political school, Armen Ashotyan will remind him that the discourse opened by the academic freedom may undergo some limitations, “That discourse may be limited exclusively by constitutional norms, if the political opinion professes or calls for violence, xenophobia, destruction of bases of constitutional order.” Armen Ashotyan doesn’t refuse that young people, who studied at the political school of the Republican Party, participated in the pre-election campaign of one of the opposition powers. He will not say that they were from Yelk (Way out) alliance, “Those young people participated in the pre-election campaign of more than one opposition power.” By the way, touching upon Edward Sharmazanov’s statement that Armen Ashotyan may write a song for Nikol Pashinyan’s campaign at Yerevan Council of Elders elections, former Minister of Education opposed, “If there is a need for music, I will be able to find the people, whom I can pass my emotions in the form of both poems and music, so that they can express in the best way what I have seen as an author while writing this or that song.” Yesterday he listened to the performance of “Erebuni Yerevan” song by the leader of Yelk and he can say that he welcomes Nikol Pashinyan’s ease, “Evidently he was singing out of tune.”
