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    LEVON TER-PETROSIAN: HENCEFORTH OUR MAIN SLOGAN WILL BE SERZH SARGSYAN'S RESIGNATION

    Noyan Tapan
    http://www.nt.am/news.php?shownews=116236
    Au g 2, 2008

    YEREVAN, AUGUST 2, NOYAN TAPAN. In the words of the first Armenian
    president Levon Ter-Petrosian, since the October 27, 1999 assassination
    and especially since the former prime minister Aram Sargsyan was
    relieved of his post, the National Assembly (NA) has been turned into a
    president's appendage whose task is to carry out obediently assignments
    given to it. As L. Ter-Petrosian said at the August 1 rally, the
    current NA has never rejected any bill proposed by the government,
    nor has it initiated any debate and made a critical analysis. "Most
    of the NA deputies are engaged in entrepreneurial activity, and for
    this reason the NA is the support of the robber state," the leader
    of People's Movement said. According to him, under Serzh Sargsyan,
    the only job of the parliament has been legalization of political
    persecutions, in particular, 4 NA deputies were deprived of their
    immunity, and some amendments "convenient" for the authorities were
    made in the law on assemblies.

    Speaking about the government formed by S. Sargsyan, the first
    president said that it does not differ in its essence from the
    government of the former head of the country Robert Kocharian as it
    has been created not for economic reasons but based on the political
    expediency.

    The 100-day work during S. Sargsyan's tenure was, according
    to L. Ter-Petrosian, just "a shame": the persecutions went on,
    the 24-hour patrol service, which started in downtown Yerevan on
    March 1, was kept. He added that today the authorities consider any
    participant of opposition ralies as a criminal who can be interrogated
    and arrested. In his words, now the people has to do with such a form
    of struggle against dissidence that did not exist even under Josef
    Stalin. Therefore, as the speaker stated, the national struggle
    against the current authorities must continue - with a demand for
    S. Sargsyan's resignation.

    The rally was concluded with a march to end in Northern Avenue where
    the sit-down strike (it began on July 4) continued. In the words of
    representative of People's Movement Levon Zurabian, the strike will
    last until September 5, the day of the next rally of the Armenian
    National Congress.
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