ARMY MAINTAINS STABILITY DURING EMERGENCY RULE IN YEREVAN – ARMENIAN CHIEF OF STAFF
Interfax News Agency
Russia & CIS
March 4, 2008
Russia
Armenian Chief of the General Staff, Col. Gen. Seiran Oganian has
said that today the army and law enforcement bodies maintain public
stability.
"Our task is also to establish in those 20 days of the emergency
rule in Yerevan a stability that will last after the lifting of the
emergency," he told a press conference in Yerevan on Tuesday.
Currently, the situation in Yerevan remains stable and is totally
controlled both by the Army and law enforcement bodies, he said.
There have been no incidents with the army since troops entered the
capital city, Oganian also said.
"The army will not shoot, it will only respond if it is being shot at,"
the general said.