Politics

Last week there were rumors saying that the ARF, a coalition party, was going to resign from the coalition, however they published information about their decision only yesterday.  Yesterday the ARF organized a press conference for this purpose, during which ARF board member Armen Rustamyan said that the reasons why they had decided to resign …

– The foreign policy of Armenia has become too active since you are in office. – I’d like to highlight that the foreign policy of the country is defined by the president of Armenia, and I am coordinating the foreign affairs ministry, the main mission of which is to implement and reach the goals set by …

During the press conference held for a special purpose the member of the ARF Supreme Body officially stated that the ARF quits being a member of the governmental coalition. The ARF refuses all of its ministerial portfolios and becomes an opposition party. In a written statement, the Dashnaktsutyun leadership in Armenia reiterated the nationalist party’s …

“We have numerously mentioned what is unacceptable for us in this process. First it is the connection of the Armenian-Turkish relations with the NKR conflict resolution and secondly it is unacceptable for us to establish a commission of historians,” said at yesterday’s press conference the chair of the People’s Party of Armenia Stepan Demirchyan, who …

Yesterday the co-chairmen of the OSCE Minsk Group were in Yerevan again. They as usual met with the RA president Serzh Sargsyan and again held a press conference and again didn’t say anything new. Usually press conferences are held when there is something new to be said. As of the Minsk Group this rule doesn’t …

“Armenia is not in favorable position in terms of the Armenian-Turkish relations now. The Armenian party should confess that it has lost in this phase of negotiation of the Armenian-Turkish relations,” during yesterday’s press conference said Hrant Margaryan, member of ARF. The ARF, which is also a part of the coalition, organized this press conference …

“I think that during those events (March 1 events) the police has made serious violations in terms of imbalance and for that the first person responsible is Haik Harutyunyan,” told our reporter the Ombudsman of Armenia Armen Harutyunyan by commenting the words of the chairman of the ad hoc on the investigation of March 1 …

“To be quite honest I should say that now I feel that we are moving to a new phase with a deeper, more detailed discussion of the remaining elements of the basic principles that need to be resolved,” the group’s U.S. co-chair, Matthew Bryza, told RFE/RL “At the end of the day, what we have …

– Mr. Iskandaryan, do you think that currently the Turkish party is considering the issue of Karabakh conflict as a precondition in the talks with Armenia? Even though they used to say that the conflict cannot be a precondition of developing relations, recently the Turkish prime minister said that the borders would not be open …

– After the articles 300 and 225 of the criminal code were changed you and many other people believed that the political prisoners resulting from the events of March 1 would be set free but it did not happen and they are still in cells. The only change is that the case of seven was …