Politics

“Recently, different people are expressing different opinions about the Karabagh peace settlement. Armenian authorites and international organizations believe that 2006 is the best time period to solve the conflict. However, president of the Republic of Nagorno Karabagh Arkadi Ghukasyan announced recently that we still have a long way to go before we reach a conflict …

In the list of discussions, we can include the conference entitled “Armenians of Azerbaijan, lost Homeland, Corresponding Compensation” which took place yesterday at the “Congress” hotel. Some of the participants in the conference included representatives of NGOs and political organizations, former and present day deputies. The peaceful environment in the conference hall was sometimes interrupted …

Recently oppositional powers have started to lead discussions on the issue of whom to elect for the position of “Armenia” committee head. This body will be the central board to work out and control the activities of the opposition. The powers have made a decision beforehand to recruit three members from “Justice” alliance (Stepan Demirchyan, …

Recently, some representatives of the Armenian press (especially those advocating ARF) make black PR in connection with the issue of Javakhk. Recently an incident took place in Javakhk: the positions of Armenian Customs Service officers were given to Georgians. This created a difficult situation in Javakhk. In addition to this difficult situation the Religious board …

Recently the RA president, co-chairmen of OSCE Minsk group and other people say that the conflict of Karabakh may be solved very soon. After all these announcements Karabakh president of Karabagh Arkadi Ghukasyan said that he didn’t think so and was rather suspicious regarding whether the problem would be solved soon or not. Probably R. …

“I didn’t vote openly. Is there anyone who can come here and tell me this? I have a good experience in the electoral field and I know how to vote. I would never do this kind of wrong thing, and I didn’t do it”, says member of “Rule of Law” Heghine Bisharyan, whom the opposition …

The sources of the Ministry of Finance of RA inform that according to the research of the World Bank (WB), in the framework of school reforms the computerization programs have not been quite efficient and the proposed conditions (furnishing, separate rooms) are not maintained. As a result of supervision it was found out that certain …

The Americans and Azeri agreed that the former Soviet “Solukh” radio-location station (which has been ruined), which is situated in Ordubad region (at the altitude of 3500 meters) of the Autonomous Republic of Nakhijevan, will be given to American military forces. This station is no worse than the radio-location station “Gabulay”, which has been given …

The most interesting topic of the conversation of yesterday’s meeting of Kocharyan and Putin was the raise of the gas price. In regard to this, Vladimir Putin said to one of the Russian media representatives, “I am sure that the economic collaboration and the issue of the gas price should be harmonious with the development …

Yesterday the RA Minister of Foreign Affairs Vardan Oskanyan sent a letter to the general director of UNESCO Koitsura Maatsura in regard to the latter’s attention to the destruction of Armenian grave inscriptions and Khachkars (cross-stones) of Nor Jugha (Nakhijevan). The minister has informed Maatsura that at the present the military forces of Azerbaijan, armed …