Politics

“OSCE co-chairman Matthew Bryza is not going to make any new proposals during his visit to Yerevan on July 29”, said RA foreign affairs minister Vartan Oskanyan. “We hope that the American co-chairman will be able to get Azerbaijan to start negotiating again. If Azerbaijan agrees to that, we will have a new opportunity to …

– The law says something different; it says that the armed forces must be non-partisan and neutral. That’s exactly the way it is. My election didn’t change the Republican party. There is no difference because I have been working with the Republican party and was the second on the Republican party list during the last …

Head of the Armenian Republican party Andranik Markaryan doesn’t think that he will have less power by replacing the board president with Defense Minister Serge Sargsyan. However, there are people who think that from now on, the “person in charge” will be Serge Sargsyan and Andranik Markaryan will simply go along with everything. “I’m not …

EU special representative in the Southern Caucasus Peter Semnebi “gave a warning” to the Armenian and Azeri authorities during a press conference held on July 24. Semnebi pointed out that the future Armenia-EU relations depend on the upcoming liberal and fair Armenian parliamentary elections. “I think that the upcoming Armenian parliamentary elections will play an …

The president’s office informed “168 Hours’ that on July 21 Robert Kocharyan could not visit Russia to participate in the non-official summit of CIS countries. According to the president’s correspondents, the president couldn’t make the trip because he isn’t feeling too well. The press department of the president’s office said that doctors found out that …

“I am not going to resign because there is no reason for that. I don’t understand why I should resign. Am I working poorly? If I work poorly, the only person who can decide to fire me is the president of Armenia, who is the commander-in-chief of the Armenian army”, said RA defense minister to …

On July 21, EU representative in Southern Caucasus, Peter Semnebi met with the minister of foreign affairs of Azerbaijan and told him that the issue of burning forests in the territories under the control of the Armenian army would be discussed in the EU office of Brussels. Mamediarov said that fires were tragic for the …

The OSCE Minsk group co-chairmen are going to have a meeting and consultation at the beginning of August in Paris. This was said by OSCE Minsk group Russian co-chairman Youri Merzlyakov to “Trend”. According to him, the main purpose of the meeting is to discuss the results of the visit of the American co-chairman to …

Recently Republican Armen Ashotyan had this to say regarding the announcements of Armenian political figures about Matthew Bryza’s announcement: “It is very strange that there are such politicians in Armenia that think that they are better politicians than Matthew Bryza”. He added that according to “Stratfor”, “this year there will be more shootings and small …

As for the rumors regarding their party A. Ashotyan says that there are two reasons for that. According to him, the first reason is the fact that Deputies worry about the future of the Republican party. A. Ashotyan says that there is no reason to worry. He says that this tendency is like “jealousy” in …