At today's closing session of the  trial of former Armenian foreign minister Alexander Arzumanian and co-defendant Suren Sirounyan, Mr. Arzumanian declared that he forgives all those who conspired against him by offering false testimony and exhibiting enmity. "As to the others, those who committed the March 1st massacre, those who raised a hand against peaceful demonstrators; it is not I who must forgive them but rather a higher authority," declared Mr. Arzumanian in his closing statement to the Kentron and Nork-Marash District Court. Mr. Arzumanian declared that he was proud of his actions and that he did nothing to be sorry for. His co-defendant, Suren Sirounyan, mcked the court by saying that this morning eight bodies of protestors killed in the post-election turmoil in Tehran had been transferred to Armenia for forensics examination via the newly built Iran-Armenia railway and that at the controls of the steam engine was none other than Samvel Nikoyan, prsident of the March 1st ad-hoc investigative committee in the parliament. He said that since their trial had been based on heresay and rumor, this was the news he picked up on the street today. Mr. Sirounyan said that in practically all the criminal cases stemming from the events of March 1, 2008, were formulated on the basis of false testimony and charges. As a result many of his friends had been sentenced to serve time in jail. Mr. Sirounyan requested nothing from the court arguing that, "If I were convinced that the court, in its deliberations, was unbiased I wouldn't feel sahmed to ask for justice." Mr. Arzumanyan said he spoke from his heart during yesterday's trial session but that this wasn't his final word on the matter. "Every end leads to the start of something new. We must throw off the past when we enter each new stage. In Armenia today there are scores of prisoners of conscience. Every one who is persecuted for his principles and beliefs, for his national or religious convictions, is a prisoner of conscience," he proclaimed. Mr. Arzumanian advised those in the couurtroom to read those sections of the New Testament dealing with Paul the Apostle. Judge Mnatsakan Martirosyan then retired to chambers. His verdict will be announced on June 22.