Chairman of HCA Vanadzor Artur Sakunts has sent a letter to U.S. President

• Monday, March 4, 18:14

Chairman of HCA Vanadzor Artur Sakunts has sent a letter to U.S.  President Barack Obama, who congratulated Serzh Sargsyan on his reelection on March 2.

The text of the letter reads as follows:

"On March 2, 2013, the Armenian media disseminated your congratulatory message to the acting president of the Republic of Armenia, Serzh Sargsyan on being reelected as the president of Armenia on February 18, 2013. Your congratulation came right when the OSCE/ODIHR disseminated their post-election interim report (March 2, 2013), which emphasized the public distrust toward the election results and numerous facts and justifications for this distrust, including the correlation between the high turnout and the number of votes for Serzh Sargsyan, which duly raises concerns regarding the integrity of the electoral process. Your congratulation was disseminated when Amnesty International released a statement (February 28, 2013) demanding that proper investigation be carried
out on the reported human rights violations which took place on February 18, 2012.

However your congratulation is absolutely inappropriate for these elections, which were accompanied by flagrant fraud and violations.

You undertook immediate responsibility for the falsifications, by congratulating those who falsified the elections... With this letter, I express my deepest concern about your position...".