Politics

– Mr. Harutyunyan, the Rapporteur of the Human Rights Commission of the CoE Thomas Hammarberg declared in Yerevan two weeks ago that the developments of the investigation of the March 1 case “smell like political vendetta.” How do you estimate the current situation? – I met with Hammarberg at that time and he didn’t come …

Terry Davis, Secretary General of the Council of Europe, said during his visit to Baku that he is surprised at the recent decision made by Azerbaijan, as a result of which the broadcast of radio Liberty, BBC and Voice of America media companies will be limited starting from January 1, 2009. “The government of Azerbaijan …

Do you remember that after the events of March 1 former president Robert Kocharyan told people that it would affect the incoming tourism and even some tour packages had already been cancelled? The former president’s announcements were followed by Trade and Economic Development minister Nerses Yeritsyan’s warnings that the films and information about the political …

Yesterday the Armenian Parliament passed the bill on the amendments to the RoA Law on Referendum with 87 votes for, 7 votes against and two abstentions. Only seven deputies of the 131-member legislature voted against the amendment in the first reading. All but one of them represents the opposition Heritage party that has condemned it …

No matter how much the RA premier Tigran Sargsyan advises not to speak about the international crisis in order not to open its access to Armenia, our country, however, even now has some serious economic issues. The crisis first of all affected the mining sector. The sector of exported mining resources is fully paralyzed because …

“Improvement of the Armenian-Turkish relations will support the talks between Armenia and Azerbaijan on the issue of Nagorno Karabakh conflict,” announced Turkish foreign affairs minister Ali Babajan in Baku and emphasized that Turkey advocates the principle of the conflict peaceful settlement in the framework of the Minsk Group. He also said that on December 4-5, …

Yesterday the NA started the discussion of the amendments of draft law on the referendum proposed by the government. Forty days after the adoption of revision package of this essential law the government will become authorized to initiate a referendum. Most probably this important draft law, which was discussed by the first reading, will be …

Yesterday the parliament discussed the bill on amendment to the law on Referendum proposed by the government, which suggests to entitle the government to initiate referendums as well. According to the existing law only the parliament and speaker can initiate referendums. By the way, the parliament and speaker can initiate referendums only to adopt Constitutional …

The Prosecutor supervising the legality of the inquest of the criminal case filed in connection with the massive disorders in Armenia on March 1-2, in Yerevan, confirmed the bill of particulars of the 7 guilty, under preliminary detention. The Prosecutor’s Press Secretary reports, based on the evidences obtained during the inquest Alexander Arzumanyan, Hakob Hakobyan, …

On November 10-14 the NA commission on cooperation between Armenia and Germany visited Germany. This visit, which was sponsored by the state budget, would not be in the focus of attention if new MP representing the Prosperous Armenia party Armen Melikyan was not there. The latter called a press conference upon returning to Armenia and …