Politics

The Armenian national Congress held a rally near the Matenadaran. Even though this rally was organized in the framework of the pre-election campaign for the upcoming mayoral elections, the issues addressed during this rally did not differ much from those of the previous national elections. Specifically, Levon Ter-Petrosyan discussed the issues of Karabakh conflict settlement …

According to the information of the foreign affairs ministry, on Thursday FM Edward Nalbandyan said the following in his speech at the session of the European Council Ministers committee: “The concerns of the Karabakhi people to provide their security was based on their justified demand of self-determination, which was resisted by Azerbaijan’s open large aggression, …

Yesterday Shant Harutyunyan, a political prisoner sentenced in the framework of the case of seven, was set free from the prison of Vardashen. His case was stopped on April 1 because of health problems. After that during one month Shant Harutyunyan was kept in isolated awful conditions of a psychiatric hospital, where the doctors had …

“The oratory of the Turkish prime minister Rejep Tayyip Erdogan is not connected with the real process of developing relations with Armenia so much,” Mediamax was told by their diplomatic sources of information close to the Armenian-Turkish processes, referring to Abdullah Gull’s meetings with his partners during the energetic summit in Prague last week. According …

“In the tenure of the incumbent authorities Yerevan and the other parts of the country, alas, have to be a place for criminal disputes and conflicts. This government is not able to get rid of the criminal-oligarchic system which has been formed in Armenia. Even more, the incumbent government is the guarantee of this criminal-oligarchic …

The district head of Yerevan’s Kanaker-Zeytun community, Arayik Kotanjyan told the A1+ that he hadn’t been beaten despite the media releases. On the other hand, he doesn’t deny yesterday’s variance between the Republican (RPA) and Prosperous Armenia parties. This contradicts earlier press reports that a crowd of Republican Party members, led by Kotanjyan’s son, had …

– It has been two weeks since the pre-election campaign started and already they have been a lot of incidents. In Kentron and Avan communities a group of young people managed to beat up men and women who were distributing fliers of the Armenian National Congress. Furthermore, two days ago there was an incident but …

In the opinion of the current mayor of Armenia, member of the RPA Gagik Beglaryan the methods of election race of the coalition parties and the opposition are the same. According to him the evidence of that is the incident occurred in Avan among the republicans and Kanaker-Zeytun communities of Yerevan among the RPA and …

Brussels, 7 May 2009 Joint Declaration of the Prague Eastern Partnership Summit Prague, 7 May 2009 The Heads of State or Government and representatives of the Republic of Armenia, the Republic of Azerbaijan, the Republic of Belarus, Georgia, the Republic of Moldova and Ukraine, the representatives of the European Union and the Heads of State …

Exclusive interview of the Member of the Turkish Parliament (AK Party), Deputy Chairman of External Affairs and Spokesman of the Foreign Affairs Commission, Suat Kiniklioglu, to Mediamax news agency – On April 22, Ministries of Foreign Affairs of Armenia and Turkey made a statement that they had agreed to normalize relations. The statement of U.S. …