Politics

“It is expected that the issue of appointing a U.S. Ambassador to Armenia will be discussed in the Senate in the end of July,” said the U.S. Chargé d’Affaires Joseph Pennington. Pennington says that the hearings on candidature of Marie Yovanovitch have been delayed in connection with the hearings in the Senate, during which the …

“The president of Armenia is decisive to reduce the number of people with personal immunity in order to make everyone be equal against the law,” said PM Tigran Sargsyan. He says that it should be done in consideration of political necessity and the international experience to find out who should be protected by the law …

The PACE resolution 1620 adopted at the PACE summer session on June 25 (which can be the last one for Armenia if the Armenian government does not meet the requirements of that resolution) will not replace the 1609 resolution adopted on April 17 and the requirements of both documents are valid. Such announcement was made …

“No Armenian can make the Genocide issue a matter of discussion or endanger it. Serzh Sargsyan’s statement is important because Armenia has issues with its neighbors. The Legal State has spoken a lot about the relations with neighboring countries and signified their regulation,” Turning to Serzh Sargsyan’s statement on the establishment of an Armenian-Turkish commission …

Yesterday the RA Ombudsman Armen Harutyunyan has sent an official letter to the Prime Minister of Armenia Tigran Sargsyan and the chairman of the NA standing committee on Legal Issues Davit Harutyunyan, where he presented his recommendations to the amendments of the RA Electoral Code of RA, which consisted of 21 pages. Harutyunyan mentions that …

On Saturday the first regional meeting of the Pan-Armenian movement took place in Gyumri, which despite the pouring rain was attended by numerous people. In his long-lasting speech the first president of Armenia Levon Ter-Petrosyan announced that the real culprit of the March 1 events are neither the police nor the army but the second …

– To what extent does Armenia depend on certain countries? – Every country depends on other countries to certain extent but as Armenia has been abiding in conditions of survival for several years now then we have more than a complicated situation. We have an issue of maintaining our position in the international arena. It …

Yesterday senior investigator of the Special Investigative Body of Armenia Vahagn Harutyunyan told the Radio Liberty that during the post-election developments there were enough grounds to imprison the National Assembly MPs (Myasnik Malkhasyan, Hakob Hakobyan and Sasun Mikaelyan). “The MPs are accused of special crime. They are accused of pre-planned crime,” he said as a …

Yesterday the court of general jurisdiction of Center and Nork-Marash communities prolonged the custody of members of parliament Miasnik Malkhasyan and Hakob Hakobyan by two more months. The members of parliament were charged with mass disorders and usurpation of government. The supporters of the MPs held a protest action in front of the court.

Yesterday evening the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairmen visited Yerevan from Baku. They will have meeting with high-ranking officials of Armenia. By an “interesting coincidence” only two days before the visit the PACE stated that the democracy strengthening in Azerbaijan cannot be complete as long as “the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan is not recovered.” By a …