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    SARGSYAN INAUGURATED AS ARMENIAN PRESIDENT

    Interfax News Agency
    April 9 2008
    Russia

    Serzh Sargsyan took the office of Armenian president on Wednesday.

    The inauguration ceremony of the new Armenian president took place
    at a special parliamentary session in the Yerevan opera and ballet
    theater. The ceremony was attended by Catholicos Karekin II, the
    Armenian political elite, and officials from foreign missions.

    Sargsyan took the oath with his right hand on the Bible and the
    Armenian constitution, after which he delivered a program speech.

    Sargsyan inaugurated as Armenian president (Part 2)

    YEREVAN April 9

    Serzh Sargsyan took the office of Armenian president on Wednesday.

    The inauguration ceremony of the new Armenian president took place
    at a special parliamentary session in the Yerevan opera and ballet
    theater. The ceremony was attended by Catholicos Karekin II of All
    Armenians, the Armenian political elite, and officials from foreign
    missions.

    Sargsyan took the oath with his right hand on the Bible and the
    Armenian constitution, after which he delivered a program speech.

    The first time in Armenian history, all the services of the Armenian
    armed forces for took an oath of loyalty to the president as the new
    commander-in-chief, and a small military parade took place on Freedom
    Square adjacent to the theater.

    The presidential inauguration ceremony was broadcast live on national
    television. Journalists could see the ceremony on TV screens in a
    special room.

    A balloon show will take place in central Yerevan on Wednesday evening.

    Sargsyan was Armenian prime minister before he won presidential
    elections on February 19, in which nine candidates were running.

    Before his appointment as prime minister, Sargsyan was defense
    minister.
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