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An investigative commission is essentially a tool for the opposition to exercise parliamentary oversight, MP Artur Vanetsyan, head of the opposition With Honor faction, told reporters in the National Assembly on Thursday, referring to the parliamentary commission of inquiry into the 2020 war set up by the ruling Civil Contract faction.

He says if the authorities really want to find out the circumstances of the war, they can ask the law enforcement agencies, including the Prosecutor's Office and Investigation Committee, to conduct a probe and identify those responsible for the war outcome.

"How could the investigative commission possibly be impartial when it has been set up by the authorities, its chair is a person who tirelessly defends the ruling team and it has picked Artsrun Hovhannisyan, a man who told lies throughout the war, as its expert?”  Vanetsyan said.

“How do you imagine that someone from the Civil Contract faction can ask an inconvenient question to Nikol Pashinyan? Now they have to do everything possible not to incriminate themselves,” he noted.

The opposition MP states that 1,200 criminal cases launched in Armenia in connection with the 44-day war have produced no results.

"These folks have done everything and will continue to do anything to conceal the truth about the start, course and outcome of the war, otherwise many of them will have to answer,” he said.