Businessman and former Poti Mayor Roman Melia has written to NATO headquarters demanding $1 million in compensation for damages inflicted on a recreation complex on the Black Sea coast during the Georgian joint maneuvers with NATO states that ended last week. (Caucasus Press) ARMENIAN OPPOSITION PARTY CRITICIZES PRESIDENT OVER PARLIAMENT SHOOTING SUSPECTS' RELEASE 22 June In a statement released on 21 June, the Hanrapetutiun (Republic) Party headed by former Premier Aram Sargsian criticized the release on 20 June of six men charged with abetting the five gunmen who perpetrated the October 1999 Armenian parliament shootings. Sargsian's brother and predecessor as prime minister, Vazgen, was one of the victims of that attack. The Hanrapetutiun statement characterized the release of the six men as evidence that Armenian President Robert Kocharian is seeking "to prevent the crime from being fully solved" and repeated earlier claims that unnamed senior officials are dictating to the defendants what they should say in their testimony. The statement further called for the resignation of Kocharian and the government headed by Aram Sargsian's successor, Andranik Markarian, arguing that they are unable to "guarantee the country's security and future or to expedite justice." (RFE/RL)