YEREVAN. –. Prosecutor General Artur Davtyan mentioned this in his concluding speech Tuesday during the parliament debates on his petition to strip parliamentary opposition Prosperous Armenia Party (PAP) leader, MP, and business tycoon Gagik Tsarukyan of his parliamentary immunity in order to launch criminal proceedings against him, and take Tsarukyan into custody.

"In fact, the speeches that were made were mostly political, emotional, and I think that was probably an attempt for me to present a corresponding speech. But my professional ethics do not allow me to follow that temptation.

If yesterday, today, tomorrow whichever prosecutor comes with such an initiative, the very subjective assessment of ‘political persecution’ will be made by any side of the hall.

I have always acted and will act in accordance with the law. And the law requires that everyone is equal before the law, and anyone who has committed a crime is subject to criminal liability. The petition is exclusively a legal document, the process is exclusively legal,” Davtyan added.

He called on the National Assembly to give consent to start criminal proceedings against Gagik Tsarukyan. "It will give an opportunity to Mr. Tsarukyan, giving him the appropriate judicial status by involving him in the criminal litigation procedure, to conduct a full, objective, comprehensive investigation which will be as public as possible—both in its course and its results," the attorney general said.