ALIK SARGSIAN: NORTHERN AVENUE BELONGS TO PEOPLE, AND EVERYBODY CAN WALK THERE

NOYAN TAPAN
APRIL 28, 2009
YEREVAN

Yerevan Northern Avenue belongs to the people, and everybody can
walk there, and it is not important under what authorities this or
that building was built. RA Police Chief, Police Major-General Alik
Sargsian stated at the April 28 press conference.

It should be mentioned that at the end of the April 22 meeting of the
Public Council attached to Police the Police Chief had advised the
opposition to look for another place for political walks. A. Sargsian
had said that Northern Avenue was built under the current authorities,
therefore for political walks the opposition can look for another
place built under the former authorities.

A. Sargsian made it clear saying that in an intimate talk with a
journalist after the April 22 meeting he only joked: "In what street
do we have a right to walk if 90% was built under the communists?,"
the Police Chief said. In his words, his demand on Northern Avenue
was only not to violate public order, to hold mass events within the
law and not to turn them into mass disorders. He advised journalists
not to cling to words, not to turn friendly talks into a serious
political statement and not to involve him into politics. "The Police
are a depoliticized structure," he said.

A. Sargsian refuted the information in press that the day before
policemen gathered the leaflets notifying on opposition’s May 1
rally. "No policeman gathered any leaflet from anybody, neither it
protected people taking away leaflets," the Police Chief said.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress