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From: Giorgi Kandelaki (GKandelaki@sorosny.org)
Date: Mon Jun 24 2002 - 11:28:23 EDT
ARMENIAN OPPOSITION CLAIMS PRESIDENT UPSET WAR VETERANS.
Representatives of the 13 Armenian opposition parties determined to
force a parliament debate on the impeachment of President Robert
Kocharian told journalists in Yerevan on 21 June that some members of
the Yerkrapah Union of Karabakh war veterans were alienated by
Kocharian's 18 June warning that the police are entitled to grab
opposition deputies by the ears if necessary in order to remove them
from the parliament chamber and prevent them from disrupting the
proceedings, RFE/RL's Armenian Service reported (see "RFE/RL
Newsline," 19 June 2002). Albert Bazeyan, a leading member of the
opposition Hanrapetutiun Party, said the opposition will again
attempt to force Kocharian's impeachment when parliament resumes in
September. On 20 June, the Armenian government approved draft
amendments to parliamentary statutes that would allow the speaker to
order police into the parliament chamber and to bar unruly deputies
from entering the building for up to 15 days, RFE/RL's Yerevan bureau
reported. LF
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