ARMENIAN PRESIDENT AND PRIME MINISTER MET WITH THE SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE OF THE OSCE CHAIRMAN-IN-OFFICE

Mediamax
March 3, 2008

Yerevan /Mediamax/. Armenian President and Prime Minister Robert
Kocharian and Serzh Sarkisian met on March 2 with the Special
Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office Heikki Talvitie.

As Mediamax was told in the presidential press service, the basic
topic of the talks of Robert Kocharian with Heikki Talvitie was the
situation, present in Armenia after the unrest, organized by the
opposition. According to the President, "what was happening in the
course of 2 recent days in Yerevan is difficult to describe as a
political process".

"The legal issues should be solved in the legal field and all the
organizers, instigators and executors of the unrest will bear the
responsibility, established by the law", Robert Kocharian stated.

During the meeting with Serzh Sarkisian, Heikki Talvitie noted that
he plans to hold many meetings in Armenia. According to him, the OSCE
Chairman-in-Office is for the situation in Armenia not to aggravate
anymore and the sides do everything possible to calm down the tension.

Armenian Prime Minister stated that the authorities of the country
are also interested in that and noted that from the very beginning
they urged to act exclusively within the framework of law, expressed
readiness to cooperation, however, the instigators of the unapproved
rally did everything to get what happened on March 1".