ARMENIAN PRESIDENT PLEDGES TO RELAX STATE OF EMERGENCY IN YEREVAN
Interfax News Agency
Russia & CIS
March 12 2008
Russia
Armenian President Robert Kocharian has announced plans to relax the
state of emergency in Yerevan.
"I will sign a decree on Wednesday evening or tomorrow morning changing
the attitude to the state of emergency. The current state of emergency
says what we can do, the new decree will show what must not be done,"
Kocharian told the press on Wednesday.
These restrictions will be rather narrow and have to do only with
provocative actions and the spreading of false information, he said.
Kocharian also assured the press that the mass media would be allowed
to express opinions and assess events more freely.
The Armenian mass media only relay official information these days.