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“WE WILL NOT SURRENDER”

Politics

Today members of “Peace” civil initiative handed over a protest memorandum to the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs, the RA Prime Minister Serge Sargsyan and the RA Minister of Foreign Affairs Vardan Oskanyan. A small incident took place between the police and the demonstrators. After the incident the demonstrators moved to the building of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, then to the Government building.

The reason of the action was the announcements of the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs before the forthcoming meeting of the Armenian and Azerbaijani Presidents in St Petersburg. “The Armenian nation will never accept any of the mediators’ proposals which presuppose that Armenia will be connected with Karabakh with a corridor. The Armenians will never accept that the former region of Aghdam, which is of strategic importance, and, particularly, the bank of Araks may be returned to Azerbaijan”, was said in the memorandum.

The participants of the action demanded to reveal the content of the disputed questions and “stop misleading the Armenian nation”.

“They should answer if they have consciousness, if they do not have it they will carry out their preferable project”, said Toros Sefilyan, head of the Shushi Battalion and brother of Zhirayr Sefilyan who is in the isolation cell of the National Security Service. Khachatur Vardanyan, Head of the Department for Regional Administration and Local Self-Governance, met the demonstrators in front of the Government building and took the responsibility of handing over the two letters to Serge Sargsayan. One of the letters concerned the liberated territories, the other one - to the case of Zhirayr Sefilyan.

The demonstrators demanded releasing Zhirayr Sefilyan and Vardan Malkhasyan, who were detained in December last year for the appeals to fail the constitutional order. The demonstrators hoped that their problems would be positively solved.

Members of a number of organisations participated in the demonstration today. Among them there was “Alliance” Civil Initiative, “Mitq” analytical centre, members of “Armenian volunteers' unite”, “Protection of liberated territories” social imitatives and others.