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[ last updated 17:28 ] Armenia’s leading newspapers critical of the government were unable to resume publication on Friday despite a softening of the controversial government ban on independent news reporting announced by President Robert Kocharian.
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[ last updated 17:32 ] President Robert Kocharian will not after all become Armenia’s prime minister after completing his second and final term in office early next month, Prime Minister and President-elect Serzh Sarkisian said late Thursday.
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[ last updated 17:34 ] The Council of Europe’s commissioner for human rights on Friday called for an independent investigation into Armenia’s deadly post-election unrest and said opposition supporters arrested by the authorities in recent weeks have been ill-treated in custody.
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[ last updated 17:36 ] Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian met international mediators in Vienna to discuss ways of kick-starting the Nagorno-Karabakh peace process and, in particular, organizing a fresh Armenian-Azerbaijani summit, the Armenian Foreign Ministry said on Friday.
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