The NSS employee decides what will be leaked and what will not: Pashinyan on the video of Kocharyan.
18-06-2026 13:55 Armenia Press of Diaspora
Sputnik. On the evening of June 14, it became known that the second President of Armenia, Robert Kocharyan, was not allowed to leave the country at the "Zvartnots" airport.
A service investigation has not been initiated regarding the leak of footage of the second President of Armenia, Robert Kocharyan, in the specially controlled area of the "Zvartnots" airport. This was stated by Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan during a briefing with reporters after the government meeting today.
"I have not initiated a service investigation. An NSS employee can decide anything—whether to leak or not leak; what problem is there in that? That is, it is their information, they can leak it if they want, or not leak it. The competent persons who have the authority to make those decisions can make them; but when that decision is made by people who do not have the authority and access, it is a violation of the law," said Pashinyan.
He emphasized that if the NSS sees an operational necessity, it can make a decision. Pashinyan does not see anything strange in the fact that the video of Kocharyan was not published on the official NSS pages but leaked and immediately appeared on social networks and pro-government media.
Let us recall that on the evening of June 14, it became known that the second President of Armenia, Robert Kocharyan, was not allowed to leave the country at the "Zvartnots" airport. Shortly thereafter, footage was circulated in pro-government media, which was filmed by a camera installed in the checkpoint cabin of the NSS border troops at the "Zvartnots" airport.
On June 15, Gegham Manukyan, a member of the "Armenia" faction of the National Assembly, sent a letter to NSS Director Andranik Simonian to clarify how the footage of the second President of Armenia, Robert Kocharyan, filmed in the specially controlled area, ended up in pro-government media, and whether a service investigation has been initiated or not.
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