YEREVAN, APRIL 28, NOYAN TAPAN. Yerevan Northern Avenue belongs to the people, and everybody can walk there, and it is not important under what authorities this or that building was built. RA Police Chief, Police Major-General Alik Sargsian stated at the April 28 press conference. It should be mentioned that at the end of the April 22 meeting of the Public Council attached to Police the Police Chief had advised the opposition to look for another place for political walks. A. Sargsian had said that Northern Avenue was built under the current authorities, therefore for political walks the opposition can look for another place built under the former authorities. A. Sargsian made it clear saying that in an intimate talk with a journalist after the April 22 meeting he only joked: "In what street do we have a right to walk if 90% was built under the communists?," the Police Chief said. In his words, his demand on Northern Avenue was only not to violate public order, to hold mass events within the law and not to turn them into mass disorders. He advised journalists not to cling to words, not to turn friendly talks into a serious political statement and not to involve him into politics. "The Police are a depoliticized structure," he said. A. Sargsian refuted the information in press that the day before policemen gathered the leaflets notifying on opposition's May 1 rally. "No policeman gathered any leaflet from anybody, neither it protected people taking away leaflets," the Police Chief said.

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