Politics

Karapeytan: is he against the opposition?

27.03.2007

Leader of the “New Times” political party Aram Karapetyan held a press conference on Monday upon his arrival from Moscow. He only raised a couple of questions during the press conference which he had promised to be startling and mainly criticized the Armenian opposition. But we’ll go step by step. First, Karapetyan referred to the pro-government …

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“We presented what we have”-Interview with deputy leader of the “National Unity” political party and secretary of the “National Unity” parliamentary faction Alexan Karapetyan

27.03.2007

– There are 71 people on the proportional electoral list of the “National Unity” political party. Why are there 71 people when other parties have more than 100 people on their lists? – That number was decided by chance. We had decided to include the well-prepared members on the list. I think that the number …

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LS accused

22.03.2007

Last week there was a conflict between ARP and “Prosperous Armenia” representatives in Erebuni community. Concerning this conflict the ARP faction secretary, Gagik Melikyan says that “this is sabotage against these two parties”. “I don’t think it was done by the representatives of these two parties; I neither think that they may do such things …

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There are problems already

22.03.2007

According to our information, leader of “Dashink party” is often meeting with CC member Kim Balayan. The reason of their meetings is legal consulting since the information and documentation that the Police has given to Samvel Babayan for registering in Armenia as a citizen to participate in the elections are not integral and it is …

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Advocating ARP

22.03.2007

The Greek community of Armenia is advocating the Armenian Republican Party during the parliamentary elections. This decision was made by the Armenian Greek union yesterday. They made such a decision due to ARP member Edward Sharmazanov, who is a member of their union and also is included in the ARP proportional lists.

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Governors are preparing for elections

22.03.2007

Before the upcoming elections many high state officials that were nonpartisan joined different political parties in order to be able to get positions after the elections too. As for the partisan officials, they tried to get better “party places” so that they can be elected in the parliament or get good positions. After finding places …

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ARF board member, NA deputy Armen Rustamyan: ‘Aghabekyan’s presence in our party is logical’

22.03.2007

– What are the principles that lie in the basement of the proportional list of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnakcutyun – hereinafter the ARF)? – The ARF proportional list has 117 members. This number (117) symbolizes the age of our party. However, the list could be longer and could include more members. In the basement of …

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The “Freedom” Square needs freedom

22.03.2007

The subsequent meeting of the “Alternative” NGO/political initiative took place on Friday at the Square located near the Matenadaran and despite the rainy weather; there were still an equal number of people gathered at the meeting. The event organizers informed the gatherers from the start that the next meeting was going to take place on …

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Means of securing the electorate

22.03.2007

Enlisting artists in political party proportional electoral lists is a means of securing the electoral mass because the people are already tired of hearing the same names. This is what actor Yervand Manaryan and poet Razmik Davoyan said during a press conference held on Friday. According to Yervand Manaryan, the official position does not adhere …

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For rent

20.03.2007

Yesterday former Ambassador of Armenia to Canada, Ara Papyan made a statement that Armenia does have all the legal rights to claim the borders from Turkey defined by the Sevre agreement. We wander whether Turkey should empty the mentioned territory from 13 million people before giving it to us. Mr. Papyan says that we can …

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