Politics

During a press conference, Nagorno Karabakh president Arkadi Ghukasyan talked about the help of the Armenian Diaspora and the results of the recent Telethon and mentioned that he has highly valued the results of the Telethon. “I believe that gaining the trust of the Armenian Diaspora in the people of Karabakh and the authorities is …

 “The December 10 de facto constitutional referendum of Nagorno Karabakh can’t be considered legal,” as stated in the announcement of General Secretary of the European Parliamentary Assembly. “The results of the referendum won’t be recognized by the international community; thus, it’s insignificant. The long-term Karabakh conflict resolution is only possible with the intervention of the …

“There will be change of power in 2008” yesterday said RA former prime minister Hrant Bagratyan in “Urbat” club. He is not interested in participating in the upcoming elections, but thinks that the main competing powers during the parliamentary elections will be governmental parties. “After the elections of 2007 the ruling power will be re-produced” …

Head of NA Republican faction Galoust Sahakyan doesn’t know the reasons why the regional management board heads (marzpet) of Lori and Armavir were replaced. He assures that everyone in the Republican party is busy with his work only and no one can interfere in the work of the government. “If anyone wants to know that, …

May ARF resign from the coalition because of their conflict of interests with Republican party? To this question representative of ARF, deputy Gegham Manougyan replied that all those conflicts of interest were natural and they had always existed, in addition, he said that their party was not going to resign from the coalition because of …

Yesterday “Justice” faction secretary Grigor Harutyunyan said that the authorities violate the law, but the opposition cannot do that. Does this mean that “the opposition will continue playing football against fire?” We reminded him these words spoken by RA NA ex vice-speaker Karapet Rubinyan, to which he answered, “Can I say that we can violate …

Yesterday Robert Kocharyan said that “the existing capacity of tax flow does not correspond with the relevant potential”. The president said this during a meeting with the prime minister and some ministers in the president’s office, where they said that they expected growth of inflow in 2007. Kocharyan ordered them to pay more attention to …

Yesterday “Nezavisimaya Gazeta” newspaper published article, where the reporter expressed concerns about the fact that “Euro Union is buying the CIS countries from Russia”. “What can they do to collapse the CIS that can hardly breathe? Recently the Euro Union replied to this question by providing 12 billion Euro for the purpose of developing some …

NA “Justice” faction head Stepan Demirchyan does not agree with ARF deputy Gegham Manougyan that due to the fact that the opposition is passive there will not be revolution in Armenia. “Sometimes undue activeness can be bad too” said Stepan Demirchayn and added that they were not going to be passive and the governmental parties …

The oppositional and governmental powers are doing their best to attract the constituency by all means, however each of those powers are acting as they can. The opposition is passive currently, however they promise to go out to the streets after the Christmas celebrations and stay there until they can change anything. One of the …