PRESIDENT OF ARMENIA LIFTS SOME MEDIA RESTRICTIONS DURING EMERGENCY STATE
Regnum
March 13 2008
Russia
President of Armenia Robert Kocharyan has signed on March 13 a
directive amending a state of emergency decree, REGNUM correspondent
reports referring to the head of state’s press service. In the part
about the work of media, the decree will now read: "It is prohibited to
provide the media with deliberately wrong and destabilizing information
regarding state and internal political issues, incite participation in
illegal events, publish and disseminate such information and agitation
by any means and in any ways." The decree is coming into effect on
March 14 2008.
The decree on the state of emergency was signed by the president on
March 1 and is supposed to be in effect for 20 days. On March 10,
the president sanctioned that provisions of the decree pertaining to
political parties and public organizations be dropped.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
