Politics

According to sources, Chairman of the “Republic” Party Aram Sargsyan will soon leave for the United States. The political party neither denied this nor accepted this. Sargsyan is going to the US by the invitation of high-rank US officials to discuss the future plans of the RA opposition after the Karabagh conflict negotiations in France. …

On February 20, 1988 during the 20th historical session of the Autonomous Union of Nagorno-Karabagh (AUNK) it was decided to apply to the Supreme Councils of Soviet Armenia and Azerbaijan with a request to let Karabagh be freed from Soviet Azerbaijan and AUNK and give them the right to join Soviet Armenia. Meanwhile the session …

Hrant Khachatryan couldn’t be elected as ombudsman yesterday, even the names of heroes he said couldn’t help him (A. Navasardyan, M. Georgisyan, G. Njdeh…). “Now I am asking for help form K. Demirchyan and Vazgen Sargsyan and guiding you to vote”, said Mr. Khachatryan in his speech. In spite of the announcements of MPs that …

After a long period of absence, Gagik Tsarukyan appeared in the National Assembly yesterday and said that he was disappointed in journalists during his conversation with them. He was particularly disappointed about the fact that Armenian Media didn’t really throw the light on the Armenian athletes participating in the world Olympics. “Our athletes will be …

In response to the question given by “A1+” regarding why Koacharyan left the negotiations and came back, Serj Sargsyan answered: “There was nothing to do in Rambuye and he came back. What’s wrong with that?” Serj Sargsyan doesn’t think that the negotiations in Rambuye failed and thinks that “there was nothing bad, it’s just that …

The RA foreign affairs minister Vardan Oskanyan touched upon the murder of Armenian spy Gurgen Markaryan by the Azerbaijani National-Democratic political party and considered Azerbaijan declaring Ramil Safarov the “Man of the Year” as “Azerbaijan’s style”. “It is a pity that they give a title of “the man of the year” to a murderer, and …

To the question of our correspondent regarding what kind of expectation Gagik Tsarukyan has for the 2007 parliamentary elections he answered: “We may have no expectations at all. It doesn’t matter who says what, because people must prove their competitiveness by working, and not by sitting somewhere and making up numbers. That is why we …

According to our sources, these days police have started to search the organizations belonging to Raffi Hovhannisyan (Strategy Center, “Heritage” party, etc.). According to our information they mainly targeted their bank accounts. The problem is that the authorities are afraid that after the negotiations in France the U.S. may transfer large sums to the Armenian …

Minister of Defense of Armenia Serj Sargisyan accepted the delegation headed by the U.S. Ambassador to Armenia, John Evans yesterday. The Ambassador has turned over to the Minister the final evaluation document of the RA Armed Forces, according to which, the experts of the U.S. Department of Defense highly evaluated the professional level of the …

Yesterday, Serj Sargisyan, head of the State Committee on the National Security Strategic Development Program presented the outline of the security charter. He mentioned that the developed document is not a charter, but a strategy. “A strategic doctrine will be originated from this document. There will be certain parts of the strategic doctrine which will …