IP SERVICES VS GOVERNMENT DECISION

A1 Plus | 14:51:41 | 12-11-2004 | Social |

Besides one-day-long strike, companies rendering Internet phone
services, held a protest action near Parliament building. Hundreds
of employees of about 200 managing establishments doing IP service
have today assembled at Demirchyan Street entrance of Parliament.

They were holding placards with the following expressions on:
“Government has turned off telephone, so try later, please!”,
“Justice is inaccessible or it is beyond the society”, “Is honor
beyond the reach?” etc.

The participants of the demonstration demanded Parliament to receive
their representatives in order that they should introduce the appeals
bearing 12.000 signatures and the open letter to Parliament Speaker,
MPs, parties and groups.

“Parliament must review the 24th article of the Armenian Law
on “Communication and Telecommunication” that runs counter to
Constitution, and discuss it”, the letter says.

MP Viktor Dallaqyan who came to Parliament during the demonstration
suggested the protestors to take the package in and promised to put
it on the table of Arthur Baghdasaryan.

If the protestors don’t receive response from Parliament by 5:00
PM, they will keep protesting using all the methods provided by
Constitution, right up to a long-term strike.