ARMENIAN OPPOSITION PARTY CANCELS PROTEST DUE TO PLANE CRASH DEATHS

Regnum
July 15 2009
Russia

15 July: Members of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation –
Dashnaktsutyun [ARFD] were among the passengers of the TU-154 plane
flying to Yerevan from Tehran that crashed.

Ara Nranyan, an ARFD member of the Armenian National Assembly, has
told Regnum correspondent that there were two of them but he stopped
short of naming them.

Nranyan said that the ARFD decided to cancel a protest due to the
plane crash and a day of mourning for the victims on 16 July announced
under a decree by Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan.

As Regnum reported earlier, the ARFD intended to picket the Armenian
Foreign Ministry [on 16 July] in protest at the ministry’s policy on
the Nagornyy Karabakh conflict.