To keep its promise the ad hoc parliamentary commission for the March 1 events plans to present a report to the RA Parliament during the forthcoming four-day session, the commission member Artsvik Minasyan (Armenian Revolutionary Federation, ARF), told a press conference.

However, he reported the commission may continue working if it is necessary for the fact-finding group to prepare a new report. “But even the facts presented by them by now, about 2,500 pages, do not contain anything especially new. I have examined them. The commission has most of the facts at its disposal,” Minasyan said.

How will the public accept the report considering the fact that the former members of the fact-finding group accused the ad hoc commission of not seriously examining heir reports? Answering the question put by NEWS.am, Minasyan said that “another matter is how satisfactory it will prove to be. We hope it will mainly be so because, I think, our appraisals were quite impartial.” “We could be even more impartial if our opposition colleagues had been more active.”

Incidentally, the most important question — the one concerning the causes of the ten victims’ death — remains unanswered. “As regards the causes of their death, I consider the investigative agency’s work unsatisfactory,” Minasyan said.

The ARF member also reported that the commission also intends to address the issue of policemen having prevented journalists from doing their job on March 1, 2008. The RA Police Department has not so far provided the commission with the video records confiscated from several cameramen. “We must not turn over the March 1 page slapdash,” Minasyan said.