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Dozens of foreign media spread APA's news about Kocharyan and Sargsyan being put on the wanted list

22 February 2022 14:00 (UTC +04:00)

APA's news about the prosecution of the former Armenian presidents Robert Kocharyan and Serzh Sargsyan under relevant articles of the Azerbaijani Criminal Code and declaring international search for them was disseminated by dozens of foreign media outlets.

Russian news agency “TASS”, “RIA Novosti” agencies, “Kommersant, “Arguments and Facts”, “Komsomolskaya Pravda”, “Moskovsky Komsomolets” and etc, newspapers, as well as a number of news portals "Lenta.ru", "Gazeta.ru", "Ekho Kavkaz" referred to APA’s interview with Chief of the Special Investigation Department of the Republican Military Prosecutor's Office, Chief Justice Adviser Emil Tagiyev.

Turkish news agency Anadolu, Ukrainian Ukrinform, RBC-Ukraine, Moldovan news portal Noi.md also disseminated this information referring to APA.

This news attracted the attention of the Armenian media the most. Most of the Armenian media published the opinions of Emil Taghiyev, voiced in an interview with APA.

To note, in an interview with APA, Emil Tagiyev said that Armenia’s former Presidents Robert Kocharyan and Serzh Sargsyan have been brought in responsibility and put on wanted list under relevant Articles of the Criminal Code, as they promoted establishment of national enmity between Azerbaijani and Armenian peoples, holding meetings by gathering workers of Armenian origin in organizations and facilities of city with intention of creation of hatred, belonging Karabakh to Armenians and only Armenians’ living there, expelling Azerbaijanis, deportation them from city and Nagorno-Karabakh by force, setting fire on their houses since February of 1988, adoption of illegal decision on announcement of “Nagorno-Karabakh Republic” by combining former Shahumyan province on September 2, 1991 which was in contrary with the Constitution of the Republic of Azerbaijan, by naming themselves representatives of state authority on their own, giving all power to Soviet of People's Deputies of the province and its executive committee, the invalidation of the Constitution and Laws of the Republic of Azerbaijan in that territory, and committing other crimes.