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Published on March 18, 2008
RA PRESIDENT-ELECT INAUGURATION DUE APRIL 9
- The inauguration of Armenia’s President-elect Serzh Sargsyan will be held in the State Academic Theater of Opera and Ballet on April 9 at 2 p.m. The inauguration will take place in the framework of an extra parliament session to be summoned on the occasion, Novosti Armenia reports. Serzh Sargsyan won the February 19 presidential election with 52,82 per cent of votes.
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Albert wrote:
April 9 will become like April 24th. It will go down in hsitory as a day of national mourning and shame.
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