Armenia Arrests Head Of Organization On Coup Suspicion

Armenia President Robert Kocharian and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev held talks on a Nagorno-Karabakh settlement in Minsk, November 28 (official website)

December 10, 2006 -- Authorities in Armenia have reportedly detained the head of the organization For The Defense Of Liberated Territories on suspicion of plotting a coup against the government.

One of Zhirair Sefilian's associates, Armen Aganian, says he was arrested December 9.

Sefilian, a Lebanese national, commanded an Armenian battalion during the Nagorno-Karabakh war. His organization opposes any concessions in the peace process with Baku.

(Reuters, AP)