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Ireland voted 67% in favor of the Lisbon Treaty

Ireland voted 67% in favor of the Lisbon Treaty
03.10.2009 23:01 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Ireland voted 67% in favor of the Lisbon Treaty with
just 33% voting against, according to the final count announced
Saturday, The Wall Street Journal reports.

The big swing to a Yes vote was helped by a 6% rise in voter turnout
to 59%.

European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso today hailed the
Irish `yes’ vote to the Lisbon treaty as `a great day for Ireland and
for Europe’.

The Lisbon Treaty was rejected by Irish voters in June 2008 by a 53.4%
to 46.6% vote with a 53% turnout.

Ireland is unique among the European Union’s 27 member nations in
holding a public referendum on the treaty forged in Lisbon to replace
the failed EU constitution.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

Emil Lazarian: “I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS
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