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    ARMENIAN OPPOSITION AGREES TO NEGOTIATE EARLY ELECTIONS WITH AUTHORITIES

    Interfax
    May 31 2011
    Russia

    An Armenian opposition leader has supported the idea of negotiations
    with the authorities on calling early presidential and parliamentary
    elections.

    "Considering that the authorities have granted three demands put
    forward by the Armenian National Congress (ANC), we are prepared for
    formal dialogue with the authorities at the level of delegations,"
    ANC leader and former Armenian President Levon Ter-Petrosian said at
    a rally on Tuesday.

    The ANC will put together a delegation for such negotiations in the
    near future, he said.

    "Our delegation will comprise three to five people. We will offer
    our agenda, which is well-known to everyone: early presidential
    and parliamentary elections. But this does not mean that we should
    not take into account the authorities' agenda and counter-reasons,"
    Ter-Petrosian said.

    The new political situation in Armenia provides for an opportunity to
    "solve the most pressing issues in a legitimate way," he said.

    "A revolutionary method goes against the Armenian National Congress's
    position, and we reject such a way," he said.

    Independent observers estimated the number of participants in the
    ANC rally on Freedom Square in the center of Yerevan on Tuesday at
    some 7,000 people. The rally was authorized by the city hall.

    The ANC demanded earlier that the authorities permit rallies on
    Freedom Square, free the people convicted for the March 1, 2008 events,
    and re-investigate these events.

    The opposition earlier held a rally on Freedom Square on April 28,
    which had happened for the first time in the previous three years.

    President Serzh Sargsyan had said earlier that the authorities
    were prepared to make the first step to alleviate tensions with
    the opposition.




    From: A. Papazian
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