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    SPEECH BY LEVON TER-PETROSYAN

    "A1+"
    01 March 2011

    Dear fellow Armenians,

    Instead of a speech, I suggest accepting the following statement:

    "Registering that Armenia's current bandit regime seized power through
    falsified parliamentary and presidential elections and the bloody
    crime committed on 1 March 2008,

    -has ruled the country by systematically setting limits on the
    freedom of speech, press and rallies and brutally violating human
    and civil rights,

    -has caused a severe blow to the Armenian nation's dignity by
    agreeing with the creation of a commission of Armenian and Turkish
    historians calling into question the Armenian Genocide and adopting
    the anti-constitutional law on establishing foreign language schools
    in Armenia,

    -has practically aborted the opportunity for a pro-Armenian solution
    to the Nagorno-Karabakh issue through negotiations and has led the
    conflict to a pre-war state as a result of disgraceful and unprincipled
    policies,

    --has cynically and persistently disturbed the revelation of murders
    committed by the army and the police on 1 March 2008,

    -is involved in continuously setting limits on small and medium
    businesses and creating new difficulties for the socially
    disadvantaged,

    -has created an atmosphere of permissibility, impunity, widespread
    theft, dominance of monopolists and insolence, which has increased
    emigration to a devastating number,

    -has led the majority of the people to extreme poverty and has deprived
    them of the opportunity to not only live a dignified and more or less
    good life, but the hope and perspective of reaching that,

    -and finally, taking into consideration that the regime is not only
    unprepared, but also incapable of taking any positive step toward
    improving the social-economic state, establishing democracy and
    legality and solving foreign policy issues, which is the proof of
    its decline,

    THE RALLY ORGANIZED BY THE ARMENIAN NATIONAL CONGRESS DEMANDS THAT

    1. Before March 15, that is, before the visit of the Council of Europe
    Co-Rapporteurs on Armenia, release all political prisoners sentenced
    for their political views and activities, 2. Create an independent
    international commission to study the events of March 1 or reinstate
    the Fact-Finding Group by replenishing it with international experts
    and set the objective of fully revealing and punishing all the
    culprits of that monstrous crime 3. Compensate the material damage
    of all citizens who suffered from the events of March 1, 4. Put
    an end to the police's warnings and threats to keep citizens far
    from rallies and political activities, 5. Fulfill the indisputable
    verdict of the European Court and reinstate the activities of "A1+"
    television, bring all acting individuals violating that verdict
    to justice and eliminate government control over all online media
    6. Put an end to the authorities' belligerent rhetoric and reinstate
    the previous format of negotiations in order to get the process of
    the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict resolution back on track, 7. Declare
    the infamous decisions on the prohibition of open-air street trade,
    terminating the activities of small stores after 8 p.m.

    and the compulsory car insurance, 8. Eliminate the illegal levying of
    the Value Added Tax for cars imported for personal use (and not for
    sale), 9. Convert the minimum salary in Armenia to 200 dollars and
    the unemployment benefit to 50% of that (100 dollars) and convert
    the average pension to 40% of the average salary (112 dollars),
    10.Remove the draft law put up for discussion by the proposal of
    reformulating Article 142 of the RA Labor Code from the National
    Assembly's agenda according to which the issue of setting a 6-day
    working schedule is reserved for the employer, 11.Set state subsidies
    for producing the most important products by taking into consideration
    the market price of production and the strategic importance of lands
    located on the bordering regions, 12. Provide inventories and press
    releases regarding the properties and incomes of the previous and
    current highest ranking state officials and their families, starting
    from the presidents, prime ministers, ministers, deputy ministers,
    governors, mayors and ending with the judges, prosecutors, generals
    and deputies of the National Assembly (formerly the Supreme Council),
    13. Dismiss Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan, Deputy Prime Minister
    Armen Gevorgyan, Head of the Central Bank Artur Javadyan, Head of
    the State Revenue Committee Gagik Khachatryan, Mayor of Yerevan
    Karen Karapetyan, RA Prosecutor General Aghvan Hovsepyan, Head of
    the National Security Service Gorik Hakobyan, RA Chief of Police
    Alik Sargsyan, Head of the RA Special Investigative Service Andranik
    Mirzoyan and Head of the Penitentiary Department at the RA Ministry of
    Justice Hayk Harutyunyan for humiliating flaws in economic management
    and ensuring legality, 14. The rally also deems it necessary to call
    on international organizations, as well as the United States and the
    European Union-member countries to put an end to the unreserved support
    to Armenia's dictatorial regime based on geopolitical considerations,
    which not only hurts the implementation of democratic reforms, but
    further strengthens the regime's positions, 15. If the mentioned
    demands or a large part of them are fulfilled, the rally authorizes
    the Armenian National Congress to initiate practical dialogue with
    the authorities and place the special presidential and parliamentary
    elections as the only issue on the agenda in the upcoming months."

    As to how this declaration will proceed and what the authorities'
    response will be, we will discuss that and give adequate conclusions
    during our next rally to be held on March 17.

    I think it is needless to explain that this is not just a political
    declaration, but a milestone-plan for the current pan-national
    struggle, which the members of the Congress and all participants of
    the massive events are obliged to follow, knowing that success is
    highly dependent on the discipline of our members and supporters. With
    that said, from this day forth, the rallies of the Armenian National
    Congress go from being political actions to a unique forum for social
    self-government with the full-fledged competency to make decisions
    and act.

    "I don't believe there is any eyewitness who wasn't standing by the
    people who were killed on March 1, 2008," Artsvik Minasyan told.




    From: A. Papazian
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