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After 9 a.m. today there is awareness of the rally-march on March 1,” told “A1+” authorized representative of the Armenian National Congress, member of the political council of the “Republic” political party Artak Zeynalyan.
Today marked the 72-hour deadline for the Yerevan city council to respond to the opposition members’ notice for holding a rally.
“This means that we have the right to hold the rally the way it was presented in the notice. On March 1, 2009, starting from 3 p.m. there will be a march from the Matenadaran on Mashtots Avenue to Grigor Lusavorich Street and then the square near the Myasnikyan statue,” said Artak Zeynalyan.
A bouquet of flowers will be deposited on the platform in front of city council in memory of the victims of March 1 after which the march will continue through Italy Street, Republic Square, the streets of Nalbandyan, Tumanyan and Teryan and will end at 8 p.m. at Northern Avenue.
“This is the right established by the 8th section of article 12 of the RA law on “Meetings, marches, demonstrations and rallies”. They could have rejected the appeal within 72 hours, but we had to be present during the discussions so that our voices could be heard. We were not notified about the day of discussions and haven’t participated,” told “A1+” Artak Zeynalyan adding that the city council probably took advantage of its authorizations and did not make the decision taking into account that we have the right to hold a mass rally as human beings.
The Yerevan city council informed that it has displayed the decision regarding the rally notice on its official website. But we weren’t able to find it until 1:50 p.m. because there was simply no such information on the website.
