Politics

The well-known Freedom house international law defense organization expressed negative opinions on democracy in Armenia in its recent report. “After the declaration of independence, all state elections in Armenia have been based on electoral fraud. The OSCE and European Council observers have observed serious violations during the last Armenian presidential and parliamentary elections. They have …

The Israeli-Lebanese conflict, which has been going on for the past twenty days now, proved once again that conflicts that aren’t settled for many years lead to the restart of a war and that war may have serious consequences for average citizens. According to experts, the same goes for the Karabakh conflict because the more …

According to the Armenian Assembly of America, democrat representative of the foreign affairs committee of the U.S. Senate, Joseph Biden has joined a demonstration organized by John Kerry. Kerry wants to prolong the discussions on replacing current Ambassador John Evans These demonstrations against the appointment of Richard Hoagland in the Ambassador’s position started on June …

According to day.az, Azeri foreign affairs minister, Elmar Mamediarov said that there is still potential for the Karabakh conflict negotiations and Azerbaijan is ready to continue negotiating with Armenia. “If there are any suggestions to meet with the OSCE Minsk group, we will agree”, said Mamediarov. In regard to organizing a referendum in Karabakh, Mamediarov …

“Lebanon has lost over 5 billion dollars over the past 22 days of the war. This is five times more than the budget of Armenia,” said Lebanese ambassador to Armenia, Gabriel Jerera during a press conference. According to him, the main reasons for war are the unsettled conflict and the lack of the final establishment …

“Robert Kocharyan has been elected twice during the 1998 and 2003 elections, which were declared as violated elections based on fraud. Political oppositionists haven’t recognized his legitimacy. The activities of Kocharyan’s administration are not considered as fair and good from the human rights protection perspective. This reached the critical point in 2004, when “the authorities …

On August 2, OSCE Minsk group co-chairmen Youri Merzlyakov, Matthew Bryza and Bernar Fasie will meet in Paris. “On the basis of the announcement of the G8 countries, the co-chairmen have discussed the ways of reaching those goals. The parties will be informed about those versions and we expect collaboration from them”, writes the announcement …

According to “Associated Press”, senator Norm Coleman (Minnesota) has said that he is not going to vote for approving the candidacy of a new Ambassador to Armenia proposed by president Bush because he hasn’t accepted the fact of the Armenian Genocide and the fact that 1,5 million Armenians were killed. According to the Armenian Assembly …

Whereas the pro-government parties are getting ready for the upcoming parliamentary elections, the Armenian opposition is staying under the shade. You get the impression that Armenian oppositionists don’t know what they want. The last thing Armenians tie the opposition with is Raffi Hovhannisyan’s “Inheritance” party. This political party has been fighting for a long time …

For the past month, each citizen of Armenia had the right to appeal to the Constitutional Court. According to the first Constitution of Armenia, only the president of Armenia, Armenian MPs, as well as Armenian presidential and parliamentary candidates had the right to do that when making arguments about the debates concerning election results. Only …