ACCORDING TO ROBERT KOCHARIAN, SITUATION IS CALM IN YEREVAN AT PRESENT
Noyan Tapan
March 13, 2008
YEREVAN, MARCH 13, NOYAN TAPAN. The situation formed in Armenia in
the post-election period and the problems proceeding from it were
discussed at the March 13 meeting of RA President Robert Kocharian
and Thomas Hammarberg, the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human
Rights, who is in Yerevan on a visit.
Robert Kocharian said that unfortunately we were not able to avoid
undesirable development of events, and the state had to undertake
certain steps dictated by the situation in order to normalize the
situation.
The interlocutors touched upon the condition of human rights under the
state of emergency, attached importance to the necessity to undertake
proper steps to normalize the situation as quickly as possible.
As Noyan Tapan was informed by the RA President’s Press Office,
R. Kocharian said that the situation is calm in Yerevan at present,
it is becoming stable, and proceeding from that, the limitations of
the state of emergency have been already mitigated two-fold.