HEIKKI TALVITIE TO HAVE THICK SCEDULE OF MEETINGS ALSO SPEAKING WITH OPPOSITION FORCES

Noyan Tapan
March 3, 2008

YEREVAN, MARCH 3, NOYAN TAPAN. As the Information and Public Relations
Department of the RA government reports, "Serge Sargsian, the Prime
Minister and the newly-elected President of the Republic of Armenia,
received Heikki Talvitie, the Special Representative of the OSCE
Chairman-in-office, on March 2. At the beginning of the meeting he
congratulated Serge Sargsian on the occasion of being elected on the
post of the RA President and wished him success. Then the interlocutors
touched upon the post-election processes proceeding in Armenia,
including the too strained situation created in the capital on the
eve because of the unauthorized mass meeting of the opposition and
the possible ways for the settlement of the tension. Heikki Talvitie
informed that he will have a rather thick schedule of meetings on the
days he is in Armenia, also speaking with the opposition forces. He
stressed that it is his desire and that of the OSCE Chairman-in-office
that the situation is not strained in the country still more and the
sides do everything possible to relax the existing tension.

Serge Sargsian made assertions that the authorities are as much
interested in that issue and were calling from the beginning to
act exclusively within the limits of legality, to be tolerant and
expressed readiness for cooperation, however, the instrigators of the
unauthorized mass meeting, obviously, did everything to have such a
way as they had on March 1. He stressed that the authorities, which
are interested in the establishment and maintenance of stability in
the country, will continue the efforts in that direction."