YEREVAN, MAY 14, NOYAN TAPAN. The May 13 meeting of the Armenian National Congress (ANC) representatives with Yerevan's Avan community's voters turned into a rally and finished with a march. Addressing to rally participants, ANC central office representative David Shahnazarian stated that the rally's being crowded proved their being "Avan's master." "You are this district's master and not a group of dregs," he said hinting at the people attacking women giving out leaflets on May 11 in Avan. First RA President Levon Ter-Petrosian in his speech said that on the one hand, he is glad to see people's enthusiasm, on the other hand, feels a pain that the people constantly repeats the slogan "struggle, struggle till the end." "I would like us to live freely and calmly today, when 20 years have passed since our getting free. However, today our country is occupied by the authorities," he said. Touching upon the May 11 incident, he stated that an attempt to destroy the opposition is being made today, but let them know that there is no dictatorship that does not collapse. L. Ter-Petrosian added that he is ashamed for Armenia: "Armenian people's national honor is defied, and the country has become a football ball, and everybody who likes strikes it." A march by Avan streets took place after the rally, which proceeded without incidents. A slight incident was only recorded when policemen tried to push L. Ter-Petrosian for him and other leaders to move from street's busy part to the pavement. First President's bodyguards pushed back the policemen, and march participants made a noise. As a result the march continued by street's busy part.

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