MP from Armenia's ruling party calls for banning Dashnaktsutyun

Member of the National Assembly of Armenia from the ruling "Civil Contract" party Hakob Aslanyan voiced the need to stop the activities of ARF Dashnaktsutyun.

He said he intends to initiate such a process, Caliber.Az reports citing Hraparak daily.

Aslanyan noted that when in 1998 the decision to suspend the ARF was repealed, according to the law on parties, the ARF was to resume its activities after the congress it convened.

In 1994, by decree of President Levon Ter-Petrosian, the ARF's activities were suspended on charges of violating the law on political parties. After Ter-Petrosyan was overthrown, Robert Kocharyan returned the Dashnaks to Armenia's politics.

"Dashnaktsutyun should stop its activities because it is an anti-Armenian organisation. I am not the only one who says this, but many prominent people," Aslanyan stressed, adding that he is "collecting materials for himself to learn more about the Dashnaks' spying activities."

"In just a few years, the ARF, as a dead party, will be gone from the political arena," Aslanyan said.