YEREVAN. – Solely Stepan Margaryan attended from the Prosperous Armenia Party (PAP) to Monday’s award ceremony at the Presidential Palace and the dinner which President Serzh Sargsyan offered in honor of the World Chess Olympiad’s Armenian champions, in the case when invitations were sent to the National Assembly (NA) faction leaders and NA standing committee chairpersons, Hraparak daily reports.    

“On the same day, when it was already apparent that our Olympians are returning to Armenia and it is the start of the fall session of the fifth-convocation [NA], [PAP leader, Armenian National Olympic Committee] ANOC Chairman, NA MP Gagik Tsarukyan sat on a plane and headed abroad for a private visit. 

To note, this politician, who left on ‘private’ or some other ‘reason,’ also had not attended last year’s military parade devoted to 20th anniversary of Armenia’s independence [on September 21],” Hraparak writes.