RULING COALITION PARTIES NOT TO TAKE PART IN A REGULAR SESSION OF ARMENIAN
PARLIAMENT
2004-04-12 20:28
YEREVAN, April 12 (RIA Novosti’s Gamlet Matevosyan) – The
parliamentary factions of the ruling coalition parties – the
Republican Party of Armenia,the Orinatz Yerkir (Land of Laws) party
and the Dashnaktsutyun party – will nottake part in the session of a
regular three-day session of the National Assemblyof Armenia on April
12-14, 2004.
The joint statement of the ruling coalition parties received by RIA
Novosti says that this decision was taken in order to preclude the
“artificial whipping-up of passions”.
Since April 9 the opposition has been holding in Yerevan
non-sanctioned rallies and has stated its intention to continue mass
protest actions until president Robert Kocharyan resigns.
The opposition announced that if on April 12 the ruling coalition
failed to meet the demands on holding a referendum on vote of
confidence in the president, a meeting would be organized on the same
day after which its participants would head to Marshall Bagramyan
avenue where the presidential residence and the republic’s parliament
are located.
Earlier the opposition lodged a complaint with the Constitutional
Court of Armenia demanding to recognize the results of last year’s
presidential elections which resulted in the victory of Kocharyan
invalid.
The Court dismissed a complaint and suggested that a referendum on the
vote of confidence in the president should be held. However, later the
Court chairman Gagik Arutyunyan declared that this proposal had lost
its urgency.