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    ARMENIAN OPPOSITION HOLDS RALLY IN DOWNTOWN YEREVAN

    ITAR-TASS
    04.07.2008, 21.50
    Russia

    CIS and the BALTICS

    The Armenian opposition held a rally near the Matenadaran Institute
    of Ancient Manuscripts in downtown Yerevan on Friday. Police said
    about 6,500 people took part in the action.

    Supporters of first Armenian president Levon Ter-Petrossian plan
    to start an open-ended sit-in, radical opposition co-leader David
    Shahnazarian told the rally. He said that form of protest would end
    with a new presidential election.

    Ter-Petrossian's press secretary Levon Zurabian said that the sit-in
    would end on August 1, when the opposition holds the next rally
    under the slogan of the impeachment of President Serzh Sargsyan and
    a new election.

    The opposition marched down the city center and chanted
    anti-governmental slogans.

    The Armenian radical opposition wants an early presidential election,
    Ter-Petrossian told the rally. He once again blamed the authorities
    for the March 1-2 riots, in which ten people, including two police
    officers, died.

    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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