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| 19:03:38 | 13-04-2005 | Politics |

CONFIDENCE REFERENDUM STILL IN VIGOR

Today’s meeting of the «Justice» bloc again demanded from the authorities to
organize a «Confidence referendum». The bloc has adopted an announcement
which considers the quick change of the `criminal authorities’ the demand of
the day, finding at the same time the organization of the confidence
referendum important.

Nevertheless, in connection with the events of April 12, 2004, Stepan
Demirchyan, the leader of the People’s Party of Armenia, referred to several
ideas of Robert Kocharyan expressed in the Yerevan State University
Economical Faculty, `They cynically announce that the opposition does not
succeed because the authorities are good, they work well… When it comes to
the forgeries and violations of people’s rights, of course they do work
well’, commented Stepan Demirchayn.

They he announced, `I want to reconfirm our decisiveness to bring legal
authorities to power in the country’. How? `We cannot speak about
cooperation until the forgers are punished for their deeds’, he said
referring to the calls for cooperation. Stepan Demirchyan did not like
Kocharyan’s remark about the firmness of the position of the authorities.
`No matter how they show that their position is firm, they are doomed’, he
announced.