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WorldBulletin.net. Turkey
March 30 2013
Armenia opposition chief ends hunger strike, calls for protests
Armenia's Constitutional Court has rejected challenges lodged by
defeated Armenian presidential candidate Hovannisian over the Feb. 18
poll which Sarksyan won with 58.6 percent of the vote.
World Bulletin/News Desk
Defeated Armenian presidential candidate Raffi Hovannisian said on
Friday he was ending a hunger strike over allegations President Serzh
Sarksyan rigged last month's vote, but vowed to continue street
protests.
Armenia's Constitutional Court has rejected challenges lodged by
Hovannisian over the Feb. 18 poll which Sarksyan won with 58.6 percent
of the vote. Hovannisian came second with 37 percent.
The head of the opposition Heritage Party said he would end his
two-week-old hunger strike on Easter Sunday to make sure he had enough
energy to keep up his political work.
"I will complete my modest hunger strike, which was for the sake of
faith, Motherland, peace and the future," Hovannisian told supporters
gathered in a central square of the capital Yerevan.
He called on supporters to hold a rally during Sarksyan's inauguration
ceremony on April 9.
Hovannisian, a U.S.-born former foreign minister of the landlocked
ex-Soviet republic, sent 70 complaints to the electoral commission,
which responded by saying the documents were based neither on facts
nor legal evidence.
International monitors described the poll as an improvement on
previous ones but said it lacked real competition after some of
Sarksyan's rivals decided not to run.
Foreign governments and investors are watching for any sign of
instability in the country which lies in the volatile South Caucasus
region, crossed by pipelines carrying Caspian oil and natural gas to
Europe.
Landlocked Armenia has a tense relationship with neighbouring
Azerbaijan over Nagorno-Karabakh, a de facto independent but
unrecognized state which is internationally recognized as part of
Azerbaijan but has been controlled by ethnic Armenians since a war in
the 1990s.
http://www.worldbulletin.net/?aType=haber&ArticleID=105583
March 30 2013
Armenia opposition chief ends hunger strike, calls for protests
Armenia's Constitutional Court has rejected challenges lodged by
defeated Armenian presidential candidate Hovannisian over the Feb. 18
poll which Sarksyan won with 58.6 percent of the vote.
World Bulletin/News Desk
Defeated Armenian presidential candidate Raffi Hovannisian said on
Friday he was ending a hunger strike over allegations President Serzh
Sarksyan rigged last month's vote, but vowed to continue street
protests.
Armenia's Constitutional Court has rejected challenges lodged by
Hovannisian over the Feb. 18 poll which Sarksyan won with 58.6 percent
of the vote. Hovannisian came second with 37 percent.
The head of the opposition Heritage Party said he would end his
two-week-old hunger strike on Easter Sunday to make sure he had enough
energy to keep up his political work.
"I will complete my modest hunger strike, which was for the sake of
faith, Motherland, peace and the future," Hovannisian told supporters
gathered in a central square of the capital Yerevan.
He called on supporters to hold a rally during Sarksyan's inauguration
ceremony on April 9.
Hovannisian, a U.S.-born former foreign minister of the landlocked
ex-Soviet republic, sent 70 complaints to the electoral commission,
which responded by saying the documents were based neither on facts
nor legal evidence.
International monitors described the poll as an improvement on
previous ones but said it lacked real competition after some of
Sarksyan's rivals decided not to run.
Foreign governments and investors are watching for any sign of
instability in the country which lies in the volatile South Caucasus
region, crossed by pipelines carrying Caspian oil and natural gas to
Europe.
Landlocked Armenia has a tense relationship with neighbouring
Azerbaijan over Nagorno-Karabakh, a de facto independent but
unrecognized state which is internationally recognized as part of
Azerbaijan but has been controlled by ethnic Armenians since a war in
the 1990s.
http://www.worldbulletin.net/?aType=haber&ArticleID=105583