‘“It is state protocol when a security council member welcomes and sees off the country’s president, and there is no need to seek specific subtexts [in this],’ said the spokesperson.
[But] Politologists’ Union [of Armenia] Chairman Hmayak Hovhannisyan recalled that when [the late] Karen Demirchyan was [National Assembly] NA Speaker and protocol demanded the same [procedure], he never did this, [and] thus showed his oppositional attitude,” Haykakan Zhamanak writes.