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The Municipality of Yerevan has prohibited the Armenian National Congress from holding a rally at Freedom Square.
On March 28, Executive secretary of the Armenian Pan-National Movement party V. Hayotsyan appealed to the Municipality of Yerevan to hold rallies at Freedom Square and marches from Freedom Square to Mashtots Avenue, Amiryan Street, Republic Square, Nalbandyan Street, Tumanyan Street and back to Freedom Square on April 14, 15 and 16 from 16:00 to 22:00.
According to a notice from the municipality, by the 29 March 2011 decisions of the authorized representative of the municipality, the rallies have been postponed at the mentioned site "due to the fact that other events will be held at Freedom Square on the days of the rallies (April 14, 15 and 16) and the days following them and the events exclude the holding of those rallies."
The municipality has also offered to hold the scheduled rallies on the days and hours mentioned in the notifications near the Matenadaran, while the marches were accepted in the notice.
The Municipality of Yerevan infroms that "the notification dated 28 March 2011 from the Head of the Culture Department of the Municipality of Yerevan on holding cultural events at Freedom Square from April 15 to May 15 has been accepted as a notice by the 29 March 2011 decision of the Yerevan mayor's authorized representative."
