ARMENIAN OPPOSITION LEADER ON HUNGER STRIKE MEETS WITH EUROPEAN OFFICIAL
NEWS.AM
March 20, 2013 | 12:04
YEREVAN. – Gunnar Wiegand, the European Union Chief Negotiator for
the ongoing Armenia-EU Association Agreement talks, paid a visit,
on Tuesday evening, to Armenia’s opposition Heritage Party Chairman,
former FM Raffi Hovannisian-who is declared runner-up to the winner,
incumbent President Serzh Sargsyan, as a result of the presidential
election that was conducted on February 18, but who claims to be the
real winner in the vote and who declared a hunger strike on March 10
at capital city Yerevan’s Liberty Square.
They talked at a cafe nearby the square.
Hovannisian and Wiegand discussed the post-election developments,
and the establishment of a true democracy in Armenia, the Heritage
Party informs.
To note, Wednesday marks the tenth day of Raffi Hovannisian’s hunger
strike.
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