ARMENIAN OPPOSITION: AUTHORITIES WILL DECLINE IN NEAR FUTURE

PanARMENIAN.Net
21.03.2008 17:46 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Formally lifting the emergency rule, the authorities
apply the strategy of its perpetuation, Levon Ter-Petrosyan’s team-mate
Levon Zurabyan told a news conference on March 21.

"The authorities hastily took measures to deprive the population of
any possibility to protest. They used the state of emergency as a
tool of pressure on the Constitutional Court. That is why members of
our movement do not accept the CC decision," he said.

"Representatives of the ex-President’s movement are ready for
dialogue. But is dialogue possible when one of the sides reaches out
one hand and tries to beat with the other. Many of our team-mates
have been arrested; prisons have been filled with people persecuted
for their political views. Holding talks when our compatriots are
kept in custody would be treason," he said.

When commenting on further plans, Zurabyan said that opposition will
try to avoid tensions and bloodshed.

"We will not hold unauthorized protest actions," he said.

"Armenia is awakening. The nation will never accept the despotic
regime of the incumbent authorities which are doomed to decline soon,"
he said, IA Regnum reports.