ARMENIAN PRESIDENT SIGNED A DECREE ON MITIGATING THE STATE OF EMERGENCY ORDER IN YEREVAN

Mediamax
March 10, 2008

Yerevan /Mediamax/. Armenian President Robert Kocharian signed a
decree on abolishing certain items of the decree on imposing a state
of emergency in Yerevan.

Mediamax reports that the Spokesman of the Armenian President
Viktor Soghomonian stated today that the abolitions touched upon the
sub-points 6 and 7 of the 4th part of the decree on imposing a state
of emergency, which provided for:

6. Temporary interruption of activities of parties and other public
organizations, which hinder the elimination of the conditions, which
became a reason for imposing the state of emergency.

7. Sending out the people, who violated legal order of the state of
emergency and who do not reside in the zone of its effect.

Viktor Soghomonian noted that the President made a decision on
mitigating the order of the state of emergency, taking into account the
fact that starting from March 1 and up till now, no cases of violation
of the given order have been registered. Besides, the Spokesman stated,
making the decision, the President took into account the stabilization
of internal political situation.