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    Armenia head mulls state of emergency in crisis

    Reuters, UK
    March 1 2008

    Sat Mar 1, 2008 4:48pm GMT

    YEREVAN (Reuters) - Armenia's president may declare state of emergency
    if his stand off with the opposition continues, but there is still
    hope to resolve the crisis peacefully, the foreign minister said
    on Saturday.

    "All (draft) decrees are ready to declare state of emergency," Vardan
    Oskanyan told a news conference.

    "At this moment the president is holding serious discussions and
    meetings, and he is very keen to resolve this political matter by
    political means.

    "Now it all depends on opposition (leaders). I feel we are living
    through a critical moment, and if we now take the right decision we
    (the nation) will win."

    Armenia's opposition called on its supporters to hold a new protest
    on Saturday, hours after police violently broke up its 10-day sit-in,
    drawing criticism from the Organisation for Security and Cooperation
    in Europe.

    Several thousand opposition supporters have protested daily in
    Yerevan's Freedom Square since Prime Minister Serzh Sarksyan was
    elected to replace his ally Robert Kocharyan as president in a February
    19 vote, seen as rigged by the opposition.

    (Reporting by Hasmik mkrtchyan; Writing by Dmitry Solovyov; Editing
    by Alison Williams)
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