Politics

Yesterday the director of the Max Group, NA MP Khachik Manukyan said to our reporter that he had participated in the NA voting of March 4 to deprive 4 of his MP colleagues from the parliamentarian’s immunity only with conscience. Let us remember that on that day the General Prosecutor of Armenia Aghvan Hovsepyan offered …

“The three Minsk Group Co-Chair countries will vote against this unilateral draft resolution, which threatens to undermine the peace process,” reads the statement issued by the United States, France and the Russian Federation, in their capacity as Co-Chairmen of the OSCE Minsk Group dealing with the Nagorno Karabakh conflict. Meanwhile they reaffirm their support for …

“The resolution proposed by Azerbaijan and adopted by the UN General Assembly, which is not favorable to the NKR, is not legally binding,” stated the chair of the Foreign Relations Committee of the NA of the NKR Vahram Atanesyan. “It is quite clear that the super powers of the world as well as the states …

Yesterday the Heritage Party made a statement by requesting the government to immediately cancel the curfew. The Heritage also encourages to conduct an unbiased investigation of the incidents of March 1, “the free and fair revelation of which will conduce to the recovery of democracy in our country as well as punishment of the actual …

Yesterday the National Assembly held an extraordinary session and by 91 for and 6 against and 1 abstention votes the proposal to conduct changes and amendments in the RA law on “conducting meetings, rallies, marches, and demonstrations” was accepted by the second reading. The thing is that the changes made by the NA enable to …

“At the moment the President of the Republic doesn’t have any intention to prolong the state of emergency,” during his press conference with the journalists yesterday, presidential Press Secretary Victor Soghomonyan said and added with satisfaction that no breaches have been recorded during the state of emergency. The Presidential Press Secretary considered it important to …

Yesterday a prominent Saudi prince Alualid bin Talal Abdulaziz al Saud met with the RA President Robert Kocharyan and Prime Minister, newly elected President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan in Yerevan. According to the President’s Press Office the Saudi Prince, who controls Saudi Arabia’s largest company, Kingdom Holding, discussed with Kocharyan the possibility of making investments …

No one had a doubt that the post-electoral processes and particularly the incidents of March 1 would have a negative impact on the country’s economy and especially foreign relations. A few days after that day President Robert Kocharyan also expressed his concern about that and even emphasized that the incidents would reduce the tourists’ visits …

The Resolution on the “Situation in the Occupied Territories of Azerbaijan” put to vote in the General Assembly of the United Nations on March 14 and adopted by a vote of 39 in favor, 7 against and 100 abstention, is currently estimated by both neighboring countries as the defeat of the opposite side. “The key …

On march 14 the US State Department deputy secretary Matthew Bryza gave an interview to the Russian representation of Radio Liberty and characterized the processes in Armenia as a “tragedy” and petitioned the Armenian government one more time to raise the state of emergency and recover the independence of media. Answering to the correspondent’s question …