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CHANGE OF AUTHORITIES LIVE

06:48 pm 24 March, 2006

`Instead of taking up the role of interpreter, Vardan Oskanyan should
have sent a note to the US State Secretariat for offending our
national dignity’, head of the National Unity NA fraction Artashes
Geghamyan announced during the NA briefings.

He reminded that on March 7 the report of the US State Secretariat
about drug trafficking was published in the press. It was commented on
by him and other political figures, but after that `Vardan Oskanyan
was brought to the Parliament to refute it’.

Geghamyan informed that according to the commander of the Russian
military forces in Armenia General-Lieutenant Sergey Bondorev, the
Russian border forces managed to prevent drug trafficking near the
Armenian-Irani border several times. Geghamyan asked why the Armenian
National Security Service did not say anything about it and answered
his question himself, `Because high state officers are involved in the
business’.

Geghamyan informed Kocharyan that they are worried about the country,
that’s why they are ready to negotiation with the authorities on
tensionless change of authorities. `For this purpose we are ready to
negotiate with Robert Kocharyan and Serge Sargsyan live’, Artashes
Geghamyan said.