ARMENIAN PRESIDENT LIFTS BAN ON ACTIVITIES OF POLITICAL PARTIES

Mediamax
March 10 2008
Armenia

Yerevan, 10 March: Armenian President Robert Kocharyan signed a decree
abolishing certain items of the decree on imposing a state of emergency
in Yerevan.

Mediamax reports that the spokesman for the Armenian president,
Viktor Soghomonyan, stated today that the repeal covers subpoints
6 and 7 of Part 4 of the decree on imposing a state of emergency,
which provided for:

6. Temporary interruption of the activities of [the political] 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 requirements of the state of
emergency and who do not reside in the zone of its effect.

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