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    Armenian opposition set to remove "illegal" authorities - leaders

    Noyan Tapan news agency
    5 Apr 04


    YEREVAN

    The opposition is planing to stage a massive protest action in
    Yerevan's Freedom Square at 1600 [1100 gmt] on 9 April. The action
    will be aimed at changing power in Armenia, leader of the Justice bloc
    Stepan Demirchyan and chairman of the National Unity party Artashes
    Gegamyan told a press conference at the National Assembly on 5 April.

    The Justice bloc and the National Unity party again confirmed their
    resolution to lead the processes aimed at executing a national
    requirement, i.e. the removal of the illegal regime, the establishment
    of the constitutional order in Armenia and the formation of the legal
    authorities, the parties said in a joint statement.

    Artashes Gegamyan said the authorities "have completely lost their
    heads which can be proven by mass arrests of opposition activists over
    the last two days".

    Demirchyan said that the ruling regime was behaving like "a junta" and
    aiming to frighten the opposition. However, he believes that the
    authorities will achieve the reverse effect and accelerate their own
    defeat.

    "The regime, which is suffering from a mania for preserving the
    authorities at any cost, rejected the well-known decision of the
    Constitutional Court on the conduct of a referendum on a vote of
    confidence. It wants to settle a score through illegal actions and
    violence. There is only one way out, i.e. the regime that has usurped
    the power must go," the joint statement by the opposition said.
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