Politics

Recently RA defense minister Serge Sargsyan said that it’s quite possible that the president may remove him from the position of defense minister, however he would not resign just because he joined the Republican party. After all, Kocharyan had given his consent. “I think that if it happens either the president or his press secretary …

“The ARF doesn’t really approve the proposed plan for the Karabakh conflict settlement because we’re dealing with the return of territories through compromises and the autonomy right is not fully discussed the way it should be. But we’re not doing anything about that since Azerbaijan no longer accepts that,” says ARF member Kiro Manoyan. What …

During a press conference a couple of days ago, member of the ARF Bureau and Armenian National Committee correspondent Kiro Manoyan said that it’s quite possible that the pro-government ARF party will hold meetings aimed against President Robert Kocharyan. When the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairmen revealed the secret principles of the Karabakh conflict settlement, it …

After RA defense minister Serge Sargsyan joined the Republican party, the board of the party decided to give him a partial position; they are going to get back the position of the party board head that they had taken out of their by-laws. “We are going to make some changes to our by-laws, according to …

The EU representative in Southern Caucasus, Peter Semnebi is going to visit Armenia soon. He is going to meet with RA foreign affairs minister Vartan Oskanyan to discuss issues concerning Armenia-Eu ties, as well as issues concerning the Karabakh conflict settlement. Besides this visit, on July 29 the American co-chairman of the OSCE Minsk group, …

Recently “New Times” party made an announcement condemning the cases of illegal intimidation on free speech and Mass Media: “We are deeply concerned about the illegal intimidation and pressure on Mass Media and we condemn the illegal activities of the current authorities and the crimes of the police”, as stated in the announcement of NT …

The ministry of foreign affairs of Azerbaijan has announced that it has received the report of Anjey Kasprchik concerning their visit to Karabakh to see whether forests were burnt or not and added that they would give an answer as soon as they finish the research. “Noyan Tapan” agency asked press correspondent of the foreign …

Recently, the Karabakh conflict settlement is being discussed actively. Several days ago the leader of NDP, Vazgen Manukyan said that time is on Karabakh’s side. Later he tried to cover up for what he said by saying that he meant the fact that after surviving as an independent state for over 15 years, Karabakh will …

Besides that, political parties are busy with their ratings. That’s why they are conducting surveys. As for the results, it’s hard to say whether they are right or not. Experience has shown that it mostly depends on who orders them. In spite of that, several politicians told us that usually parties have two rating lists; …

Last week, a couple of Armenian communist parties tried to unite but quickly disbanded. On the day of uniting and the days that followed, the communists called each other careerists, traitors, delirious, prates, pro-Serge Sargsyan, pro-Kocharyan… As a result, they didn’t get anywhere and it’s clear that they won’t anytime soon. The people who were …