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    ARMENIAN PRESIDENT REMOVES MEDIA RESTRICTIONS

    ARKA
    March 13, 2008

    YEREVAN, March 13. /ARKA/. RA President Robert Kocharyan has removed
    a number of restrictions imposed of Armenia's mass media by a decree
    on a state of emergency in the country. The new decree is to take
    effect on March 14.

    The RA presidential press service reports that the RA President made
    alterations to his decree of March 1. The new wording of Sub-Paragraph
    4 of Paragraph 4 is: "prohibition of deliberate misinformation of
    mass media on state and domestic political affairs".

    The decree prohibits any calls for participation in illegal
    activities, as well as dissemination of misinformation on such
    activities. According to the original wording of the presidential
    decree, mass media were allowed to public information on state and
    domestic political affairs exclusively within the limits of official
    information.

    At his meeting with journalists yesterday, President Robert Kocharyan
    stated the possibility of altering the terms of emergency in Yerevan.

    "This evening or tomorrow morning I will sign a decree altering the
    approach. At present, as part of the state of emergency we are pointing
    to what may be done, and the new decree will point to what may not,"
    Kocharyan said.

    Today, the RA President's decree also invalidates Sub-Paragraph 5 of
    Paragraph 4 of the March 1 decree, saying: "political propaganda by
    means of leaflets or by other means is prohibited unless permitted
    by relevant government bodies".

    On March 1, 2008, the RA President signed a decree imposing a state
    of emergency in Yerevan.

    The following points of the decree remain in force: prohibition
    of meetings, demonstrations, processions, strikes and other mass
    activities hindering organizations' activities; law-enforcers are
    entitled to search vehicles and individuals.

    On March 10, the RA President signed a decree removing the restrictions
    on the activities of parties and other public organizations preventing
    the elimination of circumstances that led to the declaration of a
    state of emergency. The decree also invalidated the points on the
    eviction of people violating the emergency regime.
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