ARMENIAN PRESIDENT ROBERT KOCHARIAN REELECTED ACCORDING TO EARLY RETURNS

March 6, 2003 - 18:34 AMT  17:42 GMT
1 583 107 constituents participated in the elections, 1 037 031 out of them voted for Robert Kocharian, 499 288 - for Stepan Demirchian.

64.5% CONSTITUENTS PARTICIPATED IN ELECTIONS

March 6, 2003 - 07:14 AMT  17:42 GMT
The central electoral commission has announced the total number of citizens, who participated in the elections.

AS OF 1:00 A.M. KOCHARIAN COLLECTED 73.8%

March 6, 2003 - 05:33 AMT  17:42 GMT
The central electoral commission has made public latest data on the early returns of the elections in 360 polling stations, where a total of 203 790 citizens voted

TIGRAN NAGHDALIAN'S MURDERERS ARRESTED

March 6, 2003 - 05:32 AMT  17:42 GMT
The killer himself and another five accomplices in the crime are arrested.

SERGE SARGSIAN DENIED RUMOR ON TROOPS TRANSFER FROM NKR TO GORIS TO KEEP PUBLIC ORDER AT ELECTIONS

March 6, 2003 - 00:54 AMT  17:42 GMT
S.Sargsian specified that contract military personnel serving in the NKR army were transferred to Goris to take part in the vote due to the absence of election centers for that purpose in Nagorno Karabakh.

KOCHARIAN NOT PLANNING TO MEET WITH HEAD OF OSCE OBSERVERS

March 6, 2003 - 00:27 AMT  17:42 GMT
Representative of the candidate's electoral headquarters Vahagn Mkrtchian said.

STEPAN DEMIRCHIAN'S ELECTORAL HEADQUARTERS SUBMITTED 76 COMPLAINTS TO CENTRAL ELECTORAL COMMISSION

March 6, 2003 - 00:13 AMT  17:42 GMT
Vardan Mkrtchian, proxy of opposition presidential contender, People party leader Stepan Demirchian, noted that rights of their candidate's proxies and electoral commission members were main subjects of violations.

LIFE WILL GO ON AFTER MARCH 5

March 3, 2003 - 04:00 AMT  17:42 GMT
Two days before the voting, Presidential candidate Stepan Demirchyan confirmed his readiness to participate in the second round of the elections. Leader of People's party, despite the opinion of the radical part of his supporters who were trying to convince him in the impossibility of changing the power legitimately, Demirchyan decided to go up to the end believeing in his possiblities and in the triumph of justice.
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