PARTICIPANTS OF OPPOSITION MEETING IN YEREVAN MADE FOR STATE HEAD'S RESIDENCE TO DEMAND AUTHORITY RETIREMENTApril 12, 2004 - 23:33 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Today upon the completion of an opposition rally held in the Liberty Square in Yerevan at 4:00 p.m. those gathered made for the residence of the Armenian leader. Leaflets with calls to a procession to demand retirement of the current authorities were spread by opposition activists even before the beginning of the meeting. At present the procession is stopped by police forces cordon next to the building of the National Assembly of Armenia in Baghramian Avenue (not far from the presidential residence). It should be noted that the number of people at today's protest action (some 10 thousand) is less than on April 9. Opposition leaders explain it with blocking entries from various regions of Armenia to Yerevan. Top stories The Cabinet of Ministers decided on Thursday, November 9 to allocated AMD 120 million to arrange the gathering. Michael Roth believes sanctions must be put on the table after Baku‘s ethnic cleansing in Nagorno-Karabakh. The Yerevan City Council has elected Tigran Avniyan from the ruling Civil Contract as the mayor of the Armenian capital. The Armenian Parliament on Tuesday, October 3 voted to ratify the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. Partner news | Russia clarifying reports on Baku’s alleged arms supply to Ukraine Russia says is carefully working to verify reports about alleged arms supplies from Azerbaijan to Ukraine Russia warns Armenia against “falling into West’s trap” Zakharova maintained, however, that anything that will benefit the people of Armenia can only be welcomed. CSTO: Armenia has not participated in secretariat’s work recently Recently Armenia has not participated in the work of the secretariat of the CSTO, Imangali Tasmagambetov said. Ucom launches network modernization efforts in few regions of Armenia In particular, on March 28, the legacy Mobile Switching Subsystem will be replaced with a new one. |