Refrain from actions that would prompt police to use force, police chief urges

ArmInfo. RA Police Chief Aram  Hovhannisyan, currently on Republic Square, called on the rally  participants fefrain from actions that would prompt police to use  force. "The police will act within the law. "I want to urge people to  refrain from such actions that would allow the police to use force,"  he said.

In response to the remark that there could be provocateurs, the  police chief said: "Well, we will try to distinguish them." He  expressed hope that there will be no extraordinary actions by the  people.

On May 4, representatives of the "Tavush for the Motherland"  movement, under the leadership of the Primate of the Tavush Diocese  of the Armenian Apostolic Church, Archbishop Bagrat Galstanyan, began  a marchfrom the h Kirants village of Tavus to Yerevan. The march  participants oppose unilateral concessions and the illegal  delimitation of the state border with Azerbaijan. On May 9 at 16:00 a  public rally is planned on Republic Square.

The building of the Armenian government is cordoned off by a police  cordon; the police have deployed additional forces to the streets  adjacent to Republic Square.