Politics

Yesterday in Paris the PACE session took place, during which the report of the PACE rapporteur Thomas Hammarberg’s on 1609 and 1620 resolutions was presented. The report implies that there are political prisoners in Armenia and that Armenia didn’t abide with the requirements of the mentioned resolutions. Among other recommendations the PACE commission offers to …

Yesterday the director of the Supreme Council-Deputy Group NGO Ruben Torosyan issued a statement addressed to the RA President Serzh Sargsyan. It is entitled “Advice to my former colleague for inadequate compliments” and has the following contents, “no matter how much the Heritage party encourages you that you have a chance for becoming legitimate don’t …

Yesterday the director general of Bjni factory of mineral water L. Harutiunyan stated that the Service of Enforcement of Court Judgments makes breaches in the procedure of putting out the property of the factory to an electronic auction. In particular, the Service hides from the Company what property will be sold out and how much …

In a news conference on December 15 the Armenian reporters asked the OSCE Secretary General Marc Perrin de Brichambaut visiting Armenia if there is certainty over the time of agreement on the principles of settlement of the Karabakh issue. The reporters said that the OSCE Minsk Group French co-chair Bernard Fassier stated, for instance, that …

Yesterday, the Government rejected “Republic” party’s request for holding the conference of the Armenian National Congress in the session hall of the Government (situated on Melik Adamyan street) on the 21st, 22nd or the 23rd of December. Earlier, the Government had rejected the appeal for providing the session hall to the Armenian National Congress on …

“The principles of Madrid regarding the Karabakh conflict resolution have undergone no changes,” Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandyan told a press conference yesterday “But we managed to do that in Armenia, and we are determined to continue the reforms not because some people may announce we must do that but because such reforms are necessary …

“Everyone should understand that for the sake of Armenia there should be no political prisoners in Armenia, even there should be no cases which can be a reason to assume that there may be political prisoners in Armenia. There should be a normal legal procedure, the criminal cases should be solved fast and everyone should …

Yesterday people were informed the name of the person who ordered snipers to shoot during the events of March 1 (according to the government, he is the only person that ordered to shoot). During the recent session of the ad hoc commission in charge of investigating the events of March 1 former commander of the …

Radio Liberty reports that coordinator of legal support service Armen Khachatryan says that EU human rights commissioner Thomas Hammerberg has the opportunity to get acquainted to the 7 Criminal Case and the corresponding conclusions. The latter says that the group of lawyers of the mentioned 7 accused people has sent a letter to Thomas Hammerberg …

“We have decided to adopt certain approaches in connection with the ‘Case of Seven’ because we believe that this case is the ‘litmus test’ characterizing the entire chain of these proceedings. I find that the ‘Case of Seven’ will be a specific kind of experiment on the path of the strategic development of our people. …