"IF THE AUTHORITIES DOE NOT SATISFY OUR DEMAND TO HOLD NEW ELECTIONS, THE PROTEST ACTIONS WILL STOP BEING PEACEFUL", REPRESENTATIVE OF TER-PETROSIAN’S STAFF STATED

Mediamax
February 21, 2008

Yerevan /Mediamax/. The rally of Armenian presidential candidate Levon
Ter-Petrosian’s supporters is in process in the Yerevan Freedom Square.

As the Mediamax’s correspondent reports, the representatives of
the Armenian Police warned the gathered people that the rally is
not approved.

The representative of Levon Ter-Petrosian’s staff Nikol Pashinian
stated in response that "the actions of the authorities during the
elections were illegal, of which evidence the many falsifications".

He stated that "in case there is the necessity, actions of protest
will be held simultaneously in various parts of Yerevan".

"We will hold peaceful actions of protest, until the legal ways of
struggle are exhausted. If the authorities do not satisfy our demand to
hold new elections, the actions of protest will stop being peaceful",
Nikol Pashinian stated.