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ARMENIA DAILY DIGEST
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From: Giorgi Kandelaki (GKandelaki@sorosny.org)
Date: Wed Jun 12 2002 - 11:43:05 EDT
ARMENIAN OPPOSITION DISRUPTS PARLIAMENT PROCEEDINGS. A dozen
opposition parliament deputies occupied the podium on 10 June to
protest speaker Armen Khachatrian's refusal to include in the agenda
for this week's three-day session the question of impeaching
President Robert Kocharian, RFE/RL's Yerevan bureau reported.
Khachatrian rejected the opposition's argument that they are legally
entitled to raise that demand during a debate on the report submitted
by an ad hoc parliamentary commission on the investigation into the
October 1999 parliament shootings (see "RFE/RL Newsline," 30 May and
3 and 7 June 2002). Leaders of the Miasnutiun, Armenian Revolutionary
Federation-Dashnaktsutiun, and Orinats Yerkir factions backed
Khachatrian. The opposition, however, charged that attempts to block
the impeachment debate are illegal. Some 200 opposition supporters
who were assembled outside the parliament listened to the debate over
loudspeakers, watched by hundreds of police in full riot
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