>From: Rick Rozoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Thousands Rally For Armenia-Russia Union > >STOP NATO: NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.HOME-PAGE.ORG > > > >Thousands rally for Armenia-Russia union >United Press International - April 21, 2000 12:12 > >YEREVAN, Armenia, April 21 (UPI) -- More than 10,000 >people, many of them Communist Party members and >supporters, held a rally in the Armenian capital, >Yerevan, Friday, demanding that a referendum be held >on the subject of Armenia joining the Russia-Belarus >union. > >The large crowd gathered in Freedom Square, in the >center of Yerevan, with many demonstrators holding >portraits of Vladimir Lenin, the founder of the Soviet >state, and dictator Josef Stalin. > >As red Soviet flags fluttered, some elderly >demonstrators lifted banners saying, "Salvation in the >union," in a bid to attract the authorities' attention >to their demands that the impoverished state reunite >with Russia and Belarus in an economic and political >union that would reconstruct part of the Soviet Union. > > >The Armenian government said it had no plans to hold >talks on joining the Russia-Belarus union, which has >yet to reach an advanced level of integration of the >neighboring republics' economies. > >-- >Copyright 2000 by United Press International. >All rights reserved. > > >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Send online invitations with Yahoo! Invites. >http://invites.yahoo.com > > >______________________________________________________________________ >To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >Advertisement: >Workstation with Monitor under $800! >So, you just heard that you need to add how many new workstations by >the end of next week? Check out the bundle below. It includes >everything you need to get everyone up and running quickly. >http://www.listbot.com/links/cdw5 > __________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki - Finland +358-40-7177941, fax +358-9-7591081 e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kominf.pp.fi ___________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe/unsubscribe messages mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___________________________________
