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    `YEREVAN MAYOR IGNORES PRIME MINISTER'S DECISION'
    [04:09 pm] 07 February, 2008

    more images `Go ahead Armenia, starving Armenia',
    the victims of state needs mocked at the presidential
    candidate Serge Sargsyan's slogan. They gathered in
    front of the Government building to meet the Prime
    Minister for the last time. Policemen did not allow
    the gathered citizens approach the Government building
    and tired to make them leave the Square. `It is cold,
    go home, you will get cold, you will not solve your
    problems standing here and crying', urged the
    policemen.

    `We will not leave until we meet the Prime Minister',
    responded the demonstrators. Some officials arrived
    from the Municipality, among them Deputy Mayor Kamo
    Areyan, and offered the demonstrators to go to the
    Municipality and solve the problems there.

    The residents of Dalma Gardens, North Avenue,
    Koghbatsi and Tigran Mets streets did not want to
    leave without getting any response from the Government
    and stood in front of the Government for 2 hours. They
    wanted to meet only the Prime Minister, since `the
    Mayor does not want to solve our problems'. `The Prime
    Minister ordered the Mayor to settle our problems.
    Some times later the Mayor told us: `I will not
    provide you with apartments. Turn to the one who has
    promised it to you''.

    `Does it mean that the Mayor ignores the Prime
    Minister's decision? The Mayor tells the Prime
    Minister as if he does his best to settle our
    problems', said Vachagan Hakobyan, Chairman of the
    `Protection of Property Rights' NGO. The demonstrators
    noted that they did not trust anyone, since `they have
    been deceiving us for 4 years'.

    Vachagan Hakobyan told `A1+' that they negotiated with
    the oppositional presidential candidates Levon
    Ter-Petrosyan, Arthur Baghdasaryan and Vazgen
    Manukyan. `If they do not solve our problems by the
    end of the week, we will join the opposition
    candidates and will fight against the authorities',
    said Vachagan Hakobyan, noting that the authorities
    tried to detain him. `If something happens to me, the
    authorities and the police will be responsible for
    it'.

    Serge Sargsyan did not receive the demonstrators since
    he was in the region of Lori. The participants of the
    protest action left the Square warning that if the
    Prime Minister did not meet them during the upcoming
    days, they would join the opposition parties.
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