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Authorities Cancel Opposition Rally Over Security Reasons

AUTHORITIES CANCEL OPPOSITION RALLY OVER SECURITY REASONS

Interfax News Agency
Russia & CIS
March 12 2008
Russia

Armenian President Robert Kocharian has described as "provocative"
Levon Ter-Petrosian’s announcement that a rally will be held
immediately after the state of emergency is lifted.

"If we give the go-ahead to a rally, people who participated in the
unrest and clashed with police and representatives of law enforcement
agencies will gather in one spot. I cannot imagine how they will
deal with each other. Repeating the same steps again would be a
provocation," the president told journalists on Wednesday.

Rallies should be avoided for some time, a pause is needed and the
level of polarization in society should be reduced, he said.

"Maybe, some will welcome clashes and new victims, as this would
provide a pretext for publications in foreign newspapers. But the
authorities will not allow this, the more so since Article 43 of the
Constitution gives us all legal grounds for that. I would ask citizens
to refrain from joining rallies," Kocharian said.

Earlier, Armenia’s first President Ter-Petrosian claimed that the
authorities had denied him permission to stage a rally on Freedom
Square on March 21 for security reasons.

Ter-Petrosian also said that the opposition was denied permission to
rally in Echmiadzin.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

Emil Lazarian: “I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS
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