Politics

The RA Foreign Affairs Ministry spokesman Tigran Balayan says that the Armenian Foreign Affairs Ministry has not received any specific suggestions on establishing of a union on stability and cooperation in Caucasus initiated by Turkey. According to him, there is no timetable on implementing the mentioned initiative and the Armenian party has not received any …

Yesterday at 10.30 a.m. several dozens of policemen and people wearing plain clothes, showed up in Northern Avenue, shouted abuse at the sit-down strikers, tore posters and left taking along their posters. However the police didn’t try to substantiate its actions. As a response to the question of the citizens and the opposition MPs as …

“Although we could see the clouds gathering, the recent Georgia-Russia confrontation shook us all. No one had allowed themselves to believe that mixed messages and complicated agendas would come to such a head, causing so much devastation, loss of life and geopolitical chaos. The South Ossetia conflict should not be viewed solely through the larger …

Yesterday the temporary NA committee on examining the events of March 1-2 hosted witnesses from the Liberty Square Gagik Shamshyan and Gohar Veziryan from the Chorrord Ishkhanutyun newspaper. Till yesterday the committee has only invited the officials and policemen but no witnesses. The chairman of the committee Samvel Nikoyan was interested in what time the …

Gagik Martirosyan, an aide to prime minister and head of a task force that was set up to coordinate transportation of commodities to Armenia after the explosion of a key railway bridge in Georgia, told that authorities in the Georgian port of Poti resumed today unloading of ships. However, the unloaded Armenian cargo is not …

“If Mr. Gul does not come and if the national teams of Armenia and Turkey play, we will not say anything at all. The factor of Gul’s visit gives a specific quality to that soccer play: it is the first visit of the Turkish president to Armenia,” said ARF bureau representative Armen Rustamyan to our …

During his meeting with the ministers of the defense and the chairman of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) Nikolay Bordyuzhin the President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan stated that the tragic events in South Ossetia showed that the military way of resolving conflicts is futile and that the events in South Ossetia will have a …

– The ARF has announced that it will organize actions of protest if the Turkish president Abdullah Gul accepts the Armenian president’s invitation to visit Armenia to watch the football play on September 6. What actions will you organize? – It is not correct to say that it will be action of protest. We will …

Yesterday in a move reflecting his administration’s ongoing crackdown on tax evasion, President Serzh Sargsyan merged the Armenian government’s tax and customs services into a single agency named State Revenue Committee. By another decree of the President sacked State Tax Service chief Vahram Barseghyan and appointed the head of the SCC, Gagik Khachatryan to run …

According to the deputy State Secretary of the US and the US co-chairman of the OSCE Minsk Group Mathew Bryza in the international law the provision of territorial integrity is a priority. Yesterday at the press conference in Washington DC to one of the questions of the journalists as whether the independence of Kosovo is …