“POLITICAL DIALOGUE IS THE ONLY WAY OUT”
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“I understand that the situation at the moment is rather complicated. The election results caused the opposition leaders’ discontent. Political dialogue is the only way out of the situation”, stated the OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Finland Ilka Kanerva.
Journalists asked whether the OSCE Chairman-in-Office was aware of the violations, riggings and political detentions in the RA before election, on the election’s day and post election period. Mr Kanerva ensured that he was well-aware of the incidents on the election’s day, during the pre-election period and said: “The political majority should follow the law and respect it. I consider that this is the only way which will bring success”.
Ilka Kanerva pointed out that he took into consideration OSCE observers’ preliminary report: “I pity that the final report will be ready in two months after the election, but the preliminary report contains both negative and positive elements”. The OSCE Chairman-in-Office noted that the final report would be ready in April and said: “We will follow the election developments. I am convinced that the OSCE observers will carry out their job properly”. The OSCE Chairman-in-Office also mentioned he was aware that Ter-Petrosyan’s headquarter had submitted 300 appeals for the re-tabulation of election results at some election precincts, but only two of them had re-tabulated. Mr Kanerva confirmed the cases of election riggings and noted he had had discussed it with the RA officials: “The problem is that how the riggings will reflect on the final results. This issue will be involved in the final report of the OSCE observers”.
The OSCE Chairman-in-Office Ilka Kanerva and the RA Minister of Foreign Affairs Vardan Oskanyan discussed two main issues during today’s meeting – the RA presidential election and the NKR problem and possible outcomes. Ilka Kanerva underlined that the OSCE was willing to contribute to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict settlement and to negotiate with the two presidents.
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Ter-Petrosyan’s pre-election headquarter informs “A1+” that Garnik Margaryan, chairman of the ”Fatherland and Honour” party and Goris Mayor Samvel Harutyunyan are detained.
The police began a general ...MARCH HAS NOT BEGAN YET BUT THE SQUARE IS CROWDED
It was almost 11 a.m. but the Liberty Square was already crowded. Before the organizers of the march appeared on the platform, the police declared that the march was illegal and demanded to leave the ...THEY DEMAND OSCE TO BE UNBIASED
A group of common citizens and representative of NGO complained of the assessments of international observers on the results of the presidential elections in front of the OSCE Office in Yerevan today. ...“SURENYANTS APPEALED TO THE PUBLIC”
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On 25 February at 21.30 police employees detained Suren Surenyants, born in 1975, at the Liberty Square and brought him Central Police Department for violating the law, organizing ...A MAN ON HUNGER STRIKE SEWED HIS MOUTH
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About 17 people are on huger strike at the Liberty Square demanding to recognize the results of the elections invalid. 50-year-old Vanadzor citizen Sargis Avetyan has sewed his mouth ...NEW DETENTIONS
Today, at 5 a.m. the employees of the RA Police intruded into Khachik Simonayan’s house, member of the “Republican” party and head of the Ter-Petrosyan’s pre-election headquarter in the region of Kotayk, ...THEY ARE WAITED IN GAS-MASKS
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The Republican Square is getting ready for Serge Sargsyan’s gathering. The Square is filled with the flags of the “Republican Party of Armenia”, buses, policemen are in gas-masks.
The ...“THIS IS A POLITICAL TERROR”
The Press Secretary of Levon Ter-Petrosyan’s pre-election headquarters Arman Musinyan does not understand on what grounds their supporters are arrested. “For example, Khachatur Sukiasyan’s car was searched ...“POLITICAL DIALOGUE IS THE ONLY WAY OUT”
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“I understand that the situation at the moment is rather complicated. The election results caused the opposition leaders’ discontent. Political dialogue is the only way out of the situation”, ...ARMEN HARUTYUNYAN MET PEOPLE ON HUNGER STRIKE
The working group, which was set up by the RA Human Rights Defender’s commission, met with the 10 people who went on huger strike on 24 February. During the meeting they found out that some people on ...ONE STEP FORWARD TWO STEPS BACKWARD
“Armenia, we all should go ahead and only ahead. Enemies are defeated, strangers are defeated, but we are together, go ahead Armenia”, declared the announcer, but the participants of the rally did not ...TWO MARCHES AT THE SAME TIME
The rally in the Liberty Square is still going on. At the moment two different marches will begin in two different directions. The Head of the “Republican” party Aram Sargsyan made a speech and declared ...SEARCH
Today at 5.00 a.m. a group of men in the masks tried to search Armen Sirunyan’s house. He is one of the active opposition actors. The men introduced themselves as the employees of the National Security ...TER-PETROSYAN INVITES SERGE SARGSYAN AND ROBERT KOCHARYAN TO LIBERTY SQUARE
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Appealing to Serge Sargsyan and Robert Kocharyan, Levon Ter-Petrosyan declared in the Liberty Square: “I appeal to you, my friends. Why don’t you want to understand the situation in ...THE MARCH WAS HELD IN ONE DIRECTION
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The march, which was organized in defense of the detained supporters by the united opposition in Yerevan streets, is over.
Today’s march was more crowded as compared with previous ...SANGER STRIKE STOPPED
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In the Liberty Square Levon Ter-Petrosyan declared that as he had promised he would make numerous speeches and added that the announcements would be simple.
Then he asked those who ...OSCE CHAIRMAN CALLS FOR DIALOGUE AND CO-OPERATION
YEREVAN, 26 February 2008 - The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Finnish Foreign Minister Ilkka Kanerva, called today on all sides in Armenia to engage in dialogue to resolve the tension that surfaced following ...TV TOWER TO BE CAPTURED
The press secretariat of the National Security Service disseminated information allegedly the Service had reliable information that the organizers of the rally in the Liberty Square discussed the plan ...
OPERATOR OF “A1+” BEATEN
JHANGIRYAN KIDNAPPED
THEY ARE WAITED IN GAS-MASKS
THOUSANDS RALLY IN LOS ANGELES TO SUPPORT TER-PETROSSIAN
TER-PETROSSIAN WINS
GAGIK JHANGIRIAN JOINS TER-PETROSSIAN
PAINSTAKING SEARCH IN MAKEYAN’S FLAT
ARE THEY BEATING?
JHANGIRYAN KIDNAPPED
TER-PETROSYAN’S HEADQUARTER SMASHED UP
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- 1802 Birth of Gabriel Patkanyan (historian, public figure) in Tbilissi (Georgia). He died in 1889 in St.Petersburg (Russia).
- 1828 Start of the repatriation of Armenians living in Iran to Eastern Armenia and the Transcaucasus.
- 1921 Atarbekian, the notorious Secret Police Chief who murdered countless Armenians during Stalin's purges, heads the anti-patriotic offensive in the Dilijan and Karakilisa (Vanadzor) regions.
- 1924 The Central Executive Committee of the USSR renames Alexandropol to Leninakan.
- 1988 Genocide of the Armenians in Sumgait (third largest city in Azerbaijan and its second largest industrial center). The perpetrators were not apprehended. No prosecutions of the guilty were initiated. Mikhail Gorbachev dismisses this Genocide just as an act of petty hooliganism.
- 1992 Artsakh forces control Khojalu, the regional military headquarters of the Azeri Turk forces.
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