Armenian opposition delivers ultimatum to President Serzh Sargsyan

2008-07-04 23:06:00

ArmInfo. While speaking at today’s opposition rally the first president
of Armenia Levon Ter-Petrossyan delivered an ultimatum to the incumbent
president of the country Serzh Sargsyan.

Ter-Petrossyan said that unless Sargsyan met the opposition’s
requirements by the Aug 1 rally the opposition would demand his
immediate resignation and the conduct of mid-term presidential
election.

"Before August 1 Serzh Sargsyan must release all the political
prisoners, take measures to stop the police and tax terror against
opposition supporters, including entrepreneurs. One of our priority
ultimative demands is to immediately bring the organizers and executors
of the March 1 massacre, first and foremost former Armenian president
Robert Kocharyan, to responsibility", Ter-Petrossyan said.

The opposition also demands that Vice Premier of Armenia Armen
Gevorgyan, Head of the Presidential Administration Hovik Abrahamyan,
Prosecutor General Aghvan Hovsepyan, Head of the National Security
Service under the RA Government Gorik Hakobyan and Chairman of the
Public Television Council Alexan Haroutyunyan should resign.