Politics

Deal with two components

27.10.2009

“It was an additional proof to show not only the political powers but the governmental institutions what deal their government has done,” said ANC representative Davit Shahnazaryan to our correspondent concerning the two recommendations to the authorities. One week ago he recommended the government to ban with a law any participation of any official in …

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ANC representative Davit Shahnazaryan: The authorities have undertaken the deal

27.10.2009

– The pro-government and opposition powers of the parliament have not accepted your recommendations. What were you trying to find out with these two recommendations? – I wanted to discover the deal the authorities have undertaken. As well as I wanted to make the people in the parliament, who are loyal to press the buttons …

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Seventh week of discussions

26.10.2009

The Turkish parliament started discussing the Armenia-Turkey protocols yesterday. There were different speeches spoken at the parliament but probably the most important one is foreign minister Ahmed Davutoglu’s speech. The later explained the content of the protocols in the name of the Turkish parliament and explained certain things. “The status-quo is out of the interests …

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Politician Stepan Grigoryan: “Did not join because the protocols are not so bad”

26.10.2009

– Mr. Grigoryan, do the obstacles in Zurich on October 10 show that the parties have radical disagreements and the process may stop at any time? – No, I don’t think so. It is not a political category when people say that someone was smiling, the other one was sad, or they agreed to sign …

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Poor Edik!

21.10.2009

While the Armenian government and the official propaganda are repeating the “absence of pre-conditions in the protocols” yesterday the President of Turkey and the foreign affairs minister made a statement on the possibility of linking the normalization of Armenia-Turkey relations with the NKR conflict resolution. But this time the statement was said in a “better” …

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Looking forward to the start

21.10.2009

Last week David Shahnazaryan, representative of the Armenian National Congress, developed a recommendation to the parliament to prevent the enforcement of the Armenia-Turkey protocols. David Shahnazaryan claimed the protocols contained dangers connected with the establishment of a commission of historians and linking the issue of Karabakh with the relations between Armenia and Turkey. Thus, according …

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Ball thrown into the field of the authorities

19.10.2009

One month ago upon the start of the six-week period of inner political discussions on the topic of the Armenia-Turkey rapprochement ANC representative David Shahnazaryan promised to tell through the media about the solution how to go out of this situation and he assured that it would be hard to reject his idea. Yesterday Mr. …

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“Interesting” proposal

19.10.2009

The European Commission proposed to provide a macroeconomic aid to Armenia in the amount of 100 million euros designed to alleviate its worst economic downturn. Georgia will be allotted 46 million euros for the same purpose. Yesterday the European Union announced about this. The EU’s executive European Commission will ask the bloc’s member governments soon …

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Reasons of the US carelessness

19.10.2009

The “Armenian and Karabakh topics” being one of the formed vectors of the Washington’s south-Caucasus policy, never become the epicenter of attention of the US media. Neither does the presence of the Armenian electorate (about 1 million) in the melting-pot of the country conduce to focusing the attention of the Americans to our interests. That …

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Suggestions, which are hard to turn down

19.10.2009

During the press conference held precisely a month ago the representative of the Armenian National Congress Davit Shahnazaryan promised the journalists that when the date of ratification of the protocols in the RA NA approaches he will make a suggestion to the RA government, which they will have a hard time to turn down. During …

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