LEVON TER-PETROSIAN CALLS ON ARMENIAN PRESIDENT AND PRIME MINISTER TO RESIGN

Noyan Tapan
Feb 26, 2008

YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 26, NOYAN TAPAN. Prior to the beginning of the
February 26 rally of the first Armenian president Levon Ter-Petrosian
and the forces supporting him in Freedom Square, the coordinator of
the "Aylntrank" ("Alternative") social-political initiative Nikol
Pashinian tore the membership cards that a group of rank-and-file
members of the Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) had handed to
him. After that some participants of the event of supporters of
the prime minister Serge Sargsian (held in Republic Square) joined
this rally in Freedom Square. Mounting the platform, one of them was
about to tear a small flag with the slogan "Ahead Armenia" but the
supporters of L. Ter-Petrosian prevented him from doing so.

L. Ter-Petrosian stated taht many of his co-thinkers, who were arrested
in recent days, particularly the chairman of "Democratic Homeland"
party Petros Makeyan, the member of the "Republic" party’s political
board Smbat Aivazian and the leader of the "New Times" party Aram
Karapetian, are being accused of attempted coup d’etat. "Kochari we
danced here in the morning is indeed an attempted coup for Robert
Kocharian," L. Ter-Petrosian said. In his words, about 500 thousand
people are taking part in the rally in Freedom Square. Addressing
Robert Kocharian and Serge Sargsian in a friendly way, he called on
them to resign.