RA PRESIDENT TO SIGN EDICT MITIGATING LIMITATIONS ON MEDIA FREEDOM
PanARMENIAN.Net
12.03.2008 14:54 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Armenian President Robert Kocharian stated he does
not see reasons to prolong the effect of the emergency rule.
"No violations of the state of emergency have been fixed since it came
into effect. The situation in Yerevan is calm and fully controllable,"
the President told reporters today.
Mr Kocharian informed that today or tomorrow he will sign a decree
on mitigating the limitations on freedom of media.
According to the President, the decree will clearly determine the
actions, which the media will have to refrain from, in particular,
publication of deliberately false and provocative information,
reports.
The presidential decree on imposition of 20-day state of emergency
in Yerevan was signed on March 1.