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    SITUATION GETTING BACK TO NORMAL IN ARMENIAN CAPITAL

    ITAR-TASS
    March 21 2008
    Russia

    YEREVAN, March 21 (Itar-Tass) - Life in Yerevan is getting back
    to normal after the period of the state of emergency expired last
    midnight. It was imposed after massive unrest on March 1.

    All the newspapers were on sale on Friday morning, including the
    opposition ones which were not published during the state of emergency,
    because restrictions were put on the work of the mass media. It
    was forbidden to hold meetings, demonstrations and strikes during
    the state of emergency. Now army and police posts outside government
    buildings, on bridges, trestles and transport conjunctions of Yerevan
    were removed.

    Armenian Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanyan and Peter Semneby, special
    representative of the European Union in the Southern Caucasus,
    discussed the domestic political situation in Armenia here on Friday.

    "They discussed possible steps to be taken for restoring public
    solidarity in the country," representatives of the press and
    information department of the Armenian Foreign Ministry told
    Itar-Tass. In their opinion, the maintenance of stability is a
    guarantee of the development of the country, as well as of the
    continuation of regional programmes.

    Meanwhile, the radical opposition announced that "a silent protest
    action" would be held in the central part of Yerevan on Friday in
    protest against "violence staged on March 1" and for "honouring the
    memory of all those who died" during massive unrest in the city.

    The organisers of the protest action plan to make a chain of people
    standing on the pavement, which will extend from the square outside
    the opera theatre to the square in front of the mayor's office.

    Eight people died in Yerevan during massive unrest on the night of
    March 1, including a police officer. 210 policemen and men of the
    Interior Ministry troops, as well as 55 civilians, were injured.

    The radical opposition refuses to recognize the official results of
    the presidential elections in Armenia and maintains that it is Levon
    Ter-Petrosyan, the first president of Armenia, who won the elections.

    On March 8 the Constitutional Court of Armenia left without changes
    the results of the voting, made public by the Central Electoral
    Commission, which showed that Prime Minister Serge Sarkisyan had been
    elected president.

    At present the Special Investigation Service of Armenia is doing
    preliminary investigation on the criminal case of the forcible
    seizure of power and the organisation of massive unrest, aimed at
    undermining the constitutional order, which involved the loss of life
    and violence against officers of law enforcement agencies, who acted
    as representatives of the authorities.
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