EVERYTHING WILL BE DONE TO HOLD OPPOSITION RALLY PEACEFULLY, SUREN SURENIANTS SAYS

Noyan Tapan

Ju ne 20, 2008

YEREVAN, JUNE 20, NOYAN TAPAN. The June 20 rally of the National
Movement will be held in the territory near Matenadaran, though the
Mayor’s Office has declined the application of holding a rally in that
place. As Suren Sureniants, a member of the Hanrapetutiun (Republic)
party’s Political Board, said at the June 20 press conference, in
political respect Armenia has traditional places of holding rallies,
Liberty Square and territory near Matenadaran. Besides, holding of
the rally near the Hrazdan stadium authorized by the Mayor’s Office
is not expedient, as, according to S. Sureniants, that place is very
small and inconvenient in the respect of communications.

According to S. Sureniants, they will do their best to hold the rally
peacefully. And if the policemen block the way leading to Matenadaran,
according to him, the rally will be held where the way will be blocked,
"and it will once more record that Armenia is a police state."

According to S. Sureniants, the organizers are ready to cooperate
with the Police to ensure the normal process of the rally. He said
that he will conduct the rally, Levon Ter-Petrosian, Chairman of the
Hanrapetutiun (Republic) party Aram Sargsian, PPA Chairman Stepan
Demirchian will make speeches.

He also said that no march and sit-down strike is envisaged after
the rally.