YEREVAN. – Armenian National Assembly’s (NA) special session on Wednesday, which was devoted to Ramil Safarov’s extradition to Azerbaijan and his being granted pardon there by President Ilham Aliyev, was held in an “exceptionally” patriotic climate, 168 Zham daily reports.

“Numerous MPs delivered speeches condemning what had transpired, calling for unity, and some were also criticizing the MFA for inaction.

As a result of the ‘heated’ session that lasted until the evening, NA adopted—by a vote of 90 ‘for’ and one ‘against’—a statement which, by its content, virtually does not differ from the assessments and calls that were made in the past several days.

That is, NA’s yesterday’s session and this statement added nothing, for the most part. In the meantime, NA, as the state’s primary political institution, at least should have decided on Armenia’s next courses of action in this situation, [and] their succession. In that case, convening a special session would have had some meaning.

But, yesterday, NA yet again just ratified that the President decides everything in Armenia and the parliament simply plays the role of ‘democratic hollowness,’” 168 Zham writes.