Armenian Leader Lifts Restrictions On Party Activities, Leaves State

ARMENIAN LEADER LIFTS RESTRICTIONS ON PARTY ACTIVITIES, LEAVES STATE OF EMERGENCY

ARMENPRESS
March 10, 2008

YEREVAN, MARCH 1O, ARMENPRESS: Armenian president Robert Kocharian
has decreed today to ease the state of emergency imposed on March 1
after massive unrest in Yerevan.

Viktor Soghomonian, a spokesman for Kocharian, said at today’s press
briefing that one of the lifted restrictions concerns the operations
of political parties and political organizations and the second one
the expulsion of people who are not permanent residents of Yerevan at
their own expense and if that is impossible at the expense of state
coffers with subsequent compensation of relevant sums to the budget.

Soghomonian said president Kocharian signed the decree to ease the
state of emergency in view of the fact that no serious breaches of
the state pf emergency have been registered since March 1 and the
overall situation has stabilized.

He said people from the legal division in Kocharian’s staff were
elaborating a decree to cancel another restriction regarding the
operation of mass media.

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