On December 21 the shooting crew of “Hailur” newscast of the First Channel
of the Public Television of Armenia was refused entry for covering the conference
of the Armenian National Congress (opposition political organization led by
the RA First President Levon Ter-Petrosian). As YPC was told by “Hailur” correspondent
Anna Vartanian, the External Relations Officer of the Congress Vladimir Karapetian
asked the journalists of the Public Television to leave the hall where the conference
was taking place. According to the journalist, Karapetian substantiated this
ban on coverage by the attitude of the Armenian National Congress towards the
incumbent authorities. The Congress Coordinator Levon Zurabian described the
occurrence as a response to authorities’ refusal to provide the Armenian National
Congress with a hall for the conference.
