Parliamentary opposition condemns Armenia's ruling party for ‘indifference’ to the fate of prisoners held in Azerbaijan

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YEREVAN, 12 November. /ARKA/. Opposition factions in the Armenian Parliament lashed out at Prime Minister Pashinyan's ruling Civil Contract party today for skipping a vote on an opposition statement calling on the international community to pressure Azerbaijan, host of the UN COP 29 climate summit, to release Armenian prisoners./pp

Opposition MPs accused the authorities of inaction when it comes to the fate of dozens of Armenian captives held hostage by Baku./pp

Parliamentary Vice Speaker Ruben Rubinyan responded by accusing the opposition of ‘absolute indifference to the future of the captives’ and of having ‘exhausted all topics trying to monetise this issue’./pp

In response, Artsvik Minasyan, an opposition member of the Hayastan (Armenia) faction, called Rubinyan's statements a ‘political disgrace.’/pp

Minasyan argued that by opposing the statement, the Civil Contract was opposing the common will and interests of the people of Armenia./pp

The vote took place, but since the ruling faction, which controls the majority of seats in the parliament, missed it, the statement was not adopted.-0-./pp nbsp;/p