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    ARMENIAN SPEAKER SUBMITS RESIGNATION, MP SAYS

    Mediamax news agency, Yerevan
    11 May 06

    Yerevan, 11 May: The speaker of the National Assembly of Armenia,
    Artur Bagdasaryan, has decided to resign, and his party Orinats Yerkir
    (Law-Governed Country Party) will quit the ruling coalition.

    Ovannes Markaryan, a member of the Orinats Yerkir parliamentary
    faction, said this in a live appearance on Yerevan's Shant TV channel,
    Mediamax news agency reports. He said that the speaker's decision
    to resign and his party's decision to quit the ruling coalition was
    adopted tonight at an expanded session of Orinats Yerkir's political
    council and was unanimous.

    Markaryan said that Artur Bagdasaryan will hold a news conference at
    1400 [1000 gmt] tomorrow and officially declare his resignation and
    Orinats Yerkir's decision to quit the coalition.

    Several MPs quit the Orinats Yerkir faction in the last few days,
    Mediamax reports.

    Orinats Yerkir is a member of the ruling coalition along with the
    Republican Party of Armenia and the Dashnaktsutyun Party on the basis
    of a memorandum signed after the 2003 parliamentary election.
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