Presidential Spokesman: Authorities fully control over situation in
country

2008-03-07 17:04:00

ArmInfo. The authorities fully control over the situation in the
country. No incidents to violate the state of emergency have been
registered, Press Secretary of the Armenian President Viktor
Soghomonyan said at a briefing, Friday.

He said the recent active meetings of the country’s top leadership and
representatives of international authoritative organizations have made
the picture of March 1 incidents in Yerevan rather clear. Commenting at
the request of ArmInfo on the proposals by EU leadership regarding the
way out of the situation in Armenia (lift of the restrictions on Mass
Media, release of arrestees, international investigation in the
incidents of March 1 etc.) Viktor Soghomonyan said that it is the
authorities that are responsible for security of citizens first of all
and not international organizations. ‘The country’s leadership makes
decisions depending on the situation and in order to provide security
to the people and not to favor anyone’, V. Soghomonyan said.

He stressed that representatives of European and American structures
who call for cancellation of the state of emergency arrive in Armenia
and get first hand view of the situation and the chronicles of March 1
incidents and make sure that the authorities acted adequately. Even
some organizations not represented in Armenia stress the necessity of
canceling the state of emergency. Representative of such organizations
pay a weeklong visit to Armenia and discuss the situation with
journalists ‘of definite orientation’ in a cafe and then leave the
country and write items or make statements. ‘It is also a normal
political process and we take active diplomatic measures in this
direction’, V. Soghomonyanm said.