On May 5, the working meeting of the Ad-Hoc Inquiry Committee into the events occurred on March 1-2, 2008 in Yerevan and their reasons with a view of submitting its conclusion to the National Assembly was held, presided over by Mr. Samvel Nikoyan.

Mr. Nikoyan said that two issues will be examined, debated during the previous meeting of the  Ad-Hoc committee.

Related to the first issue Mr. Nikoyan said that some media intentionally distorted the questions and answers, expressed in the meeting. In particular it is related to Mr. Aram Karapetyan’s question and Mr. Hayk Harutyunyan’s, ex Police Chief of the Republic of Armenia, answer. Mr. Nikoyan said he used the record of the meeting and presented Mr. Aram Karapetyan’s question. “Was the issue of the emergency situation discussed with Mr. Robert Kocharyan, Mr. Serzh Sargsyan and with all the other government officials of that time? Was there headquarters set up? Were there any instructions? Did you regularly report on the situation?”

Mr. Hayk Harutyunyan, ex Police Chief of the Republic of Armenia, answered:  “Regarding the state of emergency let me say,' Yes, the issue was discussed, and I am one of those, who put the proposal to the president to run the state of emergency, in order to avoid the unpredictable serious consequences.” Mr. Aram Karapetyan asked another question: “I gave two questions: Was there set up headquarters, and who were the members of it?” To this question Mr. Hayk Harutyunyan gave the following answer: “I said the issue was discussed with the President. I was present there, participated in it and I was one of those, who made the proposal. A headquarters was immediately created. It is a working process. At this moment I cannot name the members of the headquarters, but there are relevant documents, related to it.” 

Presenting the questions and answers, the chairman said that Mr. Hayk Harutyunyan’s speech referred the state of emergency and not establishing  headquarters.

During the debates, the members of the committee proposed to apply in written form to Mr. Hayk Harutyunyan, ex Police Chief of the Republic of Armenia, to get clarification of a number of issues.

The second agenda issue, as the chairman of the committee said, was related to the leakage of information. He said that the issue was related to the document on the results of the examination of facts, related the circumstances of Hamlet Tadevosyan’s death. 

Without going into details of the material published by the fact collecting group, Mr. Nikoyan said that the document and the clarification of the preliminary investigation, related the circumstances of Hamlet Tadevosyan’s death contradict each other. A number of members of the committee proposed to invite Mr. Vahagn Harytyunyan for clarifying the above-mentioned issue.