EXTRAORDINARY CIRCUMSTANCES IN ARMENIA

Panorama.am
00:02 02/03/2008

On 1 March the president of the Republic of Armenia Robert Kocharyan
announced extraordinary circumstances in Armenia. The information
is provided by the press and public relations department of the
president’s administration.

In order to prevent the threats of the constitutional order and
to protect citizens’ rights and legal interests, leading by the RA
Constitution articles 55/14 and 117/6 a decision is made:

1. to announce extraordinary circumstances in Yerevan for 20 days
on 1 March 2008 2. to announce the RA president as the body of
regulating and directing the problem salvation duties 3. to hand
the responsibilities of providing the peace and regulation steps to
the police of the RA and the Defense Ministry of RA 4. to announce
extraordinary circumstances in the announced territories with the
following time limits: 1) to prohibit conducting meetings, gatherings,
manifestations, public demonstrations, 2) to prohibit any activities
limiting organizations’ labor duties, 3) to give legal bodies rights,
if needed, to stop and check transport means, 4) mass media is allowed
to publish state and local news in the line with information provided
by the state bodies 5) to prohibit carrying out political campaign
by spreading booklets without having permission from appropriate
state bodies, 6) to block activities of political parties and NGO-s
which could prevent from carrying out the announced extraordinary
circumstances in the capital, 7) to oust people from the territories
where they prevent from carrying out the extraordinary circumstances
on their own means or on state budget with the terms that they should
be paid back, 5. to command the Government of the RA to take and carry
out necessary measures to assure the bringing out of the current order,
6. The current order comes into force after it is announced.