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  • Armenian opposition say to refrain from protests until May 14

    ITAR-TASS News Agency
    TASS
    May 4, 2004 Tuesday

    Armenian opposition say to refrain from protests until May 14

    By Tigran Liloyan

    YEREVAN

    Armenian opposition will refrain from meetings, marches or other mass
    actions and is ready to organize discussions with the government and
    political parties on the ways of ending the current crisis, Albert
    Bazeyan, one of the leaders of the oppositionist Republic Party, told
    a meeting in Yerevan.

    Opposition forces took that decision as a sign of respect for the
    resolution on the situation in Armenia that the Council of Europe had
    issued April 28, he said.

    The document contained, among other things, a call for dialogue
    between the government and the opposition.

    Bazeyan recalled that President Robert Kocharian's resignation
    remained the oppositionists' chief demand.

    He reiterated the claims that Kocharian was an illegitimate leader
    since he had come to power due to "amassed electoral violations".

    The authorities say, in the meantime, that the oppositionists are
    displaying political extremism and insist that dialogue be held in
    the walls of the national parliament.

    Despite rainy weather, the meeting gathered about 8,000 participants,
    who thronged through the central streets towards the building of the
    Prosecutor General's Office, where they demanded to release from
    detention some of the opposition activists.

    Police reinforcements were drawn to the Presidential Palace.
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