Armenian premier urges opposition to back off from referendum demand

Armenian premier urges opposition to back off from referendum demand

Interfax news agency, Moscow
28 Apr 04

YEREVAN

Armenian Prime Minister Andranik Markaryan, who leads the Republican
Party, has called on the opposition to withdraw its request to conduct
a referendum on a vote of confidence [in the president] from the list
of its demands.

“If this request is removed from its list of demands, the parties in
power are ready to continue negotiations with the opposition,”
Markaryan told journalists in the parliament.