In recent times, I haven’t testified on the March 1 case, but I will when there will be a need.

Armenia’s Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan on Tuesday told the abovementioned to reporters. He noted this when asked whether he had been summoned to testify along the lines of the investigation into what had occurred in capital city in March 2008.

In the PM’s words, he has repeatedly testified before, including at court.

As reported earlier, second President of Armenia Robert Kocharyan, former Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces and ex-Defense Minister Mikayel Harutyunyan, and incumbent Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) Secretary General and Armenia’s former Deputy Defense Minister Yuri Khachaturov have been charged within the framework of the criminal case into the tragic events that transpired in capital city Yerevan on March 1 and 2, 2008—and under Article 300.1 Paragraph 1 of the Criminal Code; that is, breaching Armenia’s constitutional order, in conspiracy with others.

But since Harutyunyan is not in Armenia, a search for him was declared. On July 27, Kocharyan was remanded in custody for two months by a court decision, whereas Khachaturov was released on bail; and on August 4, he returned to Moscow to his duties as CSTO Secretary General. And on August 13, the Court of Appeal granted Robert Kocharyan’s legal defenders’ appeal to commute the first-instance court’s decision on remanding their client in custody, and Kocharyan was released from courtroom on the grounds that he has presidential immunity.

On March 1 and 2, 2008, the then authorities used force against the opposition members who were rallying in downtown Yerevan, and against the results of the recent presidential election. Eight demonstrators as well as two servicemen of the internal troops were killed in the clashes. But no one had been brought to account for these deaths, to this day.