Politics

The National Assembly opposition, in particular the “Justice” alliance, makes announcements from time to time about forming temporary councils. This time, the “Justice” alliance has proposed to National Assembly president Arthur Baghdasaryan about forming a temporary council to conduct research on the electoral fraud during the 2003 parliamentary and presidential elections, as well as the …

Press secretary of Azerbaijan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs Tair Taghizade has expressed his positive opinion on the announcement made by Vartan Oskanyan: “If Azerbaijan recognizes Karabagh’s right to decide its future status on its own, Armenia will be ready to discuss the issues concerning getting rid of the consequences of war,” said the Minister of …

The former head of the electoral commission of the 03/40 poll in Oshakan village of Aragatsotn Marz Spartak Yeghiazaryan made a confession just a week ago. He confessed that he and the electoral commission had faked the results of the 2003 presidential elections by adding 60 more votes to Robert Kocharyan’s 12% quo. But as …

President of the National Assembly Arthur Baghdasaryan made a rather interesting comment during an interview with the German “Frankfurter Allgemaine Zeitung” newspaper. “Those, who think that they can get away with fraud during the elections must understand that those times are over in Armenia. If the upcoming presidential elections go on with fraud, just like …

The Karabagh National Assembly factions call the 1991-94 Azerbaijani-Karabagh armed war as Karabagh’s aggression towards Azerbaijan, while Karabagh’s post-war activities are viewed as the application of Karabagh’s self-defense right constituted in the 51st article of the UN charter. As for the current events going on in the region, they consider that to be a result …

The decision of the RA Constitutional Court, according to which the Governmental decision to take out citizens out of their apartments in the center of Yerevan to build new buildings were illegal and contradicted the Constitution, didn’t bring any positive results. However, the mentioned decision didn’t contain any information concerning compensation of the victims. In …

“The only field where Karabagh and Armenia don’t need to have ties is defense. We have said over and over again and I think will keep on saying that until we reach a solution: Armenia is the only guarantee for Karabakh’s national security”, said the RA defense minister, Serj Sargsyan. In response to a question …

Recently the German “Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung” newspaper published an interview with the RA National Assembly speaker, Arthur Baghdasaryan. In his interview Arthur Baghdasaryan said that the upcoming 2007 and 2008 elections are very important for Armenia. In response to the question whether he would follow Mikhail Saakashvili and Viktor Youschenko, who left the Government and …

The RA police have returned the technical facilities (a mini van and sound facilities) that they took from “New Times” political party during a rally last year. The police returned these facilities on its own, without any intimidation. “I hope after this they will think well before doing something”, said head of the NT, Aram …

We wonder what the RA president’s advisor on national security issues, Garnik Isagulyan, thinks about giving the 5th energetic block of Hrazdan to Russia and whether this will not undermine our national energetic security. He looks at it as normal because he thinks that this doesn’t undermine our energetic security. “Were there any better suggestions …