Politics

Last week member of the NA Prosperous Armenia faction Vardan Bostanjyan stated that the government doesn’t declare about the start of a sequester because after that the government will have to resign. Does the government actually shun to declare about the sequester because if so it will have to resign after that? “I am not …

Turkey doesn’t connect the opening of the Turkish-Armenian border with the regulation of the NKR conflict. During yesterday’s press conference such a statement was made by the director of the Caucasus Media Institute Alexander Iskandaryan. Reminder: The prime minister of Turkey Erdogan stated several days ago that he was planning to discuss with the US …

“We believe scavenging is important, political scavenging too,” said ANC representative David Shahnazaryan concerning the council elections of Yerevan during yesterday’s press conference. He says that there are two issues that the ANC will never compromise about. These two issues are the human rights generally and the issue of the political prisoners specifically, and their …

The foreign affairs ministry of Armenia has published an announcement, according to which FM Edward Nalbandyan will pay an official visit to Istanbul on April 6-7 to take part in the second forum of Alliance of Civilizations organized by the UN. It means that Edward Nalbandyan will visit Istanbul during Obama’s visit to Turkey. Maybe …

The internal political developments connected with the mayoral elections of Yerevan have to a certain extent pushed back the importance of the state budget cut – the sequester as well as the rumors of the possibility of prime minister Tigran Sargsyan’s resignation in that regard. However, according to well-known sources the issue of resignation of …

– What was discussed during the PACE session? – The main topic of discussion at the session was the 1643 resolution implementation, which concerns the process of implementation of the resolutions 1609 and 1620 as well. As you know, there was a problem with time because the articles 225 and 300 had to be changed. …

“During the past several months the government has approached the legislation of Armenia to the legislation of some totalitarian state,” yesterday stated representative of the ANC Davit Shahnazaryan. According to him during the last year, starting from March 1, 2008 huge changes were made in the legislation aimed against the first president of Armenia. “The …

The last court pro9ceeding of the case of 7 took place yesterday at Shengavit community court of general jurisdiction. The court failed to raise the accusations and stop the criminal proceedings and the judge said that the criminal cases of the seven political prisoners would be separated and handled separately. Only the cases of Alexander …

Samvel Nikoyan, the head of the ad hoc looking into the events of March 1, told our correspondent that he had an official meeting with the former police chief Haik Harutyunyan. “I have informed the commission members about the details of the mentioned meeting but they claim that it would be good if Haik Harutyunyan …

“Opening the border between Armenia and Turkey will support peace in South Caucasus,” according to radio Liberty said Denis Samouth, the director of the British LINKS non-governmental organization. He believes that opening the borders and developing diplomatic relations between Turkey and Armenia will contribute to the settlement of Karabakh conflict and development of the two …