Politics

Yesterday no issue on the mandates of Azerbaijan was included in the agenda of the EU discussions, but according to their rules the issue could be included in case ten members stood up and denied the decision to recognize the rights of the delegation of Azerbaijan. While discussing that issue Stepan Demirchyan entered the hall …

The head of “the world congress of Armenians” and “the Russian union of Armenians” Ara Abrahamyan assures that the negotiation process on gas issues between Armenia and Russia will soon be over. “This month the parties will come to a final conclusion which will comply with the interests of the both parties. This issue is …

Member of the NA and the “PDF” political party head Manuk Gasparyan says that he is ready to give the anthem, that he has ordered for his party, to the government to replace it with the existing one. “I have an anthem written for my party, but if there is any competition I will give …

The head of the parliamentary group on legal issues, Rafik Petrosyan says that if it is stated in the transitional chapter of the Constitution that they are to adopt an anthem, this means that a new anthem is to be adopted. “If they were intending on re-adopting the anthem they would write that a new …

Nowadays many are talking about the issue of international peacekeeping troops’ allocation in Karabakh. Of course there are different approaches to this issue. Recently the NA group representatives expressed a negative approach to this issue in their interview given to the national TV channel of Karabakh. According to the “democracy” group head, Vahram Atanesyan the …

After the visit of Robert Kocharyan to the municipality some people started to spread rumors that Ervand Zakharyan was fired. But regarding this the press secretary of the president’s office, Viktor Soghomonyan said that there wasn’t any order like that.

Yesterday Tigran Karapetyan advised the “United Labor Party” leader Gourgen Arsenyan to spend more money during the parliamentary elections of 2007, of course if he wants to be elected. “If, during the previous elections they could pay 10-20 dollars and be elected, now they will have to pay more, because this time there will be …

Yesterday the mayor of Yerevan presented a statement to the president. Robert Kocharyan said that it seemed to him that the municipality didn’t have a general approach to the city. “There is no analysis regarding how the city develops. If you don’t make such analysis and don’t connect with your programs, it will turn out …

Yesterday the head of the taxation service at the government, Felix Tsolakyan spoke about the 300 biggest tax-payers and complained that a lot of companies hide their real income, but they present so well-prepared and accurate statements to the body that it is very difficult for the taxation officers to find any violations. “According to …

The next meeting of Ilham Aliev and Robert Kocharyan is going to take place in February in France. On Friday the ministers of Armenian and Azeri foreign affairs, Vardan Oskanyan and Elmar Mamediarov, met in the Russian Embassy building in London. “Now we have entered a difficult stage. Today’s meeting talks about this, because it …