ARMENIAN SOCIETY LACKS CONFIDENCE

ARKA
March 26, 2008

YEREVAN, March 26. /ARKA/. There is a lack of confidence in Armenian
society, Armenia’s Republican Party Parliamentary faction member Samvel
Nikoyan told reporters. "Armenia recorded another deficit of confidence
and lack of justice because of the recent events," Nikoyan said.

A twenty-day state of emergency was imposed in Yerevan by President
Robert Kocharyan on March 1. The decree on state of emergency was
issued after the rallies of the opposition forces protesting against
the results of February 19 presidential elections attributing victory
to Prime Minister Serge Sargssyan turned into public unrest and clashes
with the law-enforcement bodies in which 265 people were injured,
and eight were killed.

Testifying to this are the rumors on the assumption that the real
number of those killed in the disturbances is greater, Nikoyan said
urging the authorities of Armenia to make up for the deficit.