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The Armenian National Assembly will convene an extraordinary sitting after today’s regular sitting to set up an investigative commission that will study the wiretapping of telephone conversation between the security and investigation chiefs, Speaker Ara Babloyan said. 

Citing Article 108 of the Armenian Constitution, the speaker said at least one quarter of the total number of lawmakers have requested him to create an investigative commission ‘to examine the obstruction of justice and violation of confidentiality of telephone conversations and the right to fair trial.’

A scandalous recording of the wiretapped conversation between Director of the National Security Service Artur Vanetsyan and Head of the Special Investigation Service Sasun Khachatryan was leaked to the public on Tuesday. In the recording, the two high-level officials informally discuss the ongoing criminal investigation into the March 2008 post-election crackdown in Yerevan.