Politics

Yesterday the newly elected President of Armenia, Prime Minister Serzh Sargsyan received the chairman of the Legal State Party. Yesterday, the leaders of “Rule of Law” and the Republican Party signed a cooperation agreement in the Government. A coalition government will be formed. PM Sargsyan hopes that the ARF will also join the coalition.

Director of the European Programs of the International Crisis Group Sabina Freiser recently stated that after the conduct of elections in Azerbaijan the parties must sit around the negotiation table once again and resolve the NKR conflict. In this regard the presidential candidate of RA Arman Melikyan told the 168-Zham reporter that he doesn’t exclude …

Yesterday during his interview to the Radio Liberty Geert Ahrens, head of the long-term observer mission deployed in Armenia by the OSCE’s Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, said the following regarding their preliminary positive statement, “There are people, who advert to our preliminary report and state that our estimation was wonderful on elections. …

The US Mission in the OSCE welcomed the efforts of the RA government and the opposition aimed at avoiding violence and urged them to maintain the peaceful situation. The U.S. statement submitted to the OSCE’s Permanent Council in Vienna yesterday stated, “We welcome the fact that the authorities have so far refrained from using force …

As of yesterday the rally of the first president of Armenia Levon Ter-Petrosyan still continues on the 9th day in the Liberty Square. The number of protestors, who spend the night in the Liberty Square, increases day by day. The evidence of this is the increase of the tents. During yesterday’s rally the representative of …

The monitors of the Helsinki Committee of Armenia, who have monitored the presidential elections of February 19, state that the voting proceeded in a “normal” way and that the violations were not “essential and didn’t affect the election results.” Yesterday the director of the Helsinki Committee Avetik Ishkhanyan stated about this and added that their …

Recently president Kocharyan met with the students of the Yerevan State University and came up with a long speech dedicated to the presidential election, post-election processes and Levon Ter-Petrosyan. Robert Kocharyan also answered the questions proposed by the students. By the way, the president also told the students not to focus on political issues only …

“For me Jhangiryan is not a politician, if he is a politician for you, you, the young politician, can be encouraged by such examples,” said PM Serzh Sargsyan in answer to Heritage party member Armen Martirosyan’s question concerning the recent arrests.

“It is the seventh day already that Levon Ter-Petrosyan and his supporters, in spite of our warnings and petitions, are organizing illegal demonstrations, strikes and rallies. The RA Police is petitioning the participants of the demonstrations to stop the illegal activities, not to violate the civil order and not to interrupt the routine life of …

“I have an imagination that there is a serious debate on the quality of the election since the presidential election of February 19,” said the EU PACE president Goran Lenmarker to the radio Liberty. “The OSCE/ODIHR and the parliamentary assembly, certainly, have agreed upon the preliminary report published following the voting day. They will publish …