New Times Party leader Aram Karapetyan stated at a press conference earlier today that the March 1st Committee hasn’t accomplished its mission of exposing what actually transpired on March 1, 2008. "If Robert Kocharyan hasn't appeared before the committee and the proper questions haven't been asked, then the committee hasn't accomplished its stated mission," Mr. Karapetyan said. According to Mr. Karapetyan, members of the secret command headquarters created in 2007 included the police chief, the chief of the National Security Service, Robert Kocharyan, Hovik Abrahamyan and Armen Gevorgyan. "Over time, they were joined by Aghvan Hovsepyan, Vardan Oskanian and Tigran Torosyan. Periodic working meetings were held at the presidential office." He said that by dissolving the Fact Finding Group and declaring a general amnesty that those responsible for the March 1st tragedy wished to close the case. Turning to foreign affairs, Mr. Karapetyan said that none of the departments responsible for crafting Armenian foreign policy was able to understand that "we are being drawn into a Azeri-Turkish game". He believes that Armenia is being drawn into such a game in which it is alleged that relations between Turkey and Azerbaijan are on the outs and thus we must try to separate the Artsakh conflict from general Armenian-Turkish relations. Mr. Karapetyan claimed that at the end of 2008 the head of the Azerbaijani presidential staff issued a directive to all the regional leaders in Azerbaijan to display a contemptuous attitude towards Turkey. He asked what had changed over the years for President Sargsyan to assume that Turkey would not close the border again in the future after opening it now. He argued that Armenia had an open border with Turkey before the start of the Karabakh conflict. Turkey closed the border due to it and that nothing has dramatically changed in the past twenty years.