Politics

Yesterday the British Embassy issued the following press release on behalf of the European Union Member States represented in Yerevan: The EU welcomes the Armenian government’s positive role in the process of constitutional reform and believes that the package of amendments proposed by the Government of Armenia will pave the way for the strengthening of …

Yesterday the Civil Court of Batumi got acquainted with the offer of the prosecutor’s office to put Abashidze in jail and gave a sanction for that purpose. According to “Itar Tass”, the prosecutor’s office is going to institute legal proceedings against Abashidze for abusing his position and grabbing state and private property. “The president of …

Recently a lot of political powers and parties have started to suggest MP Viktor Dallakyan to join them. It is said that Gagik Tsarukyan has offered him to join their future “Developing Armenia” political party too. Even more, some people say that he has been suggested to head it. We asked Mr. Dallakyan to inform …

Armenian companies that distribute print media materials worry about the news that, according to the law, as of December 14, 2004 the companies distributing print media materials are to be licensed. It is worth to mention that in 2004 the right of “Haypost” for license management was given to “Converse Invest” company. In other words …

Rumors have been flying around by members of “Justice” alliance about dropping the membership of Shavarsh Kocharyan, who is involved in the Armenian delegation to EU but is no longer an oppositionist. Secretary of “Justice” alliance Viktor Dallakyan told us that they didn’t have this kind of problem yet and that this issue would be …

National Assembly deputy chairman Vahan Hovhannisyan can’t announce that the referendum was fair. “I can’t say that there were no violations and fraud. The problem is that whether those violations could affect the outcome. I don’t think so”, -said Mr. Hovhannisyan. Vahan Hovhannisyan said that all those registered violations had to be sent to the …

Yesterday NA deputy minister, representative of “Armenian Revolutionary Federation” Vahan Hovhannisyan answered to the announcements of parliamentary representatives of the “Justice” alliance concerning the foundation of a parliamentary commission which would investigate the referendum violations: “In 1995 the Constitution was brought up by using guns”. NA member Khachatour Sukiasyan didn’t agree with him and said: …

Yesterday “Justice” alliance “attacked” Artur Baghdasaryan by telling him to bring up his announcements stating that there were violations during the referendum. In order to imagine the situation there it is worth to mention that politician Hmayak Hovhannisyan was there too (these days he keeps “Rule of law” in the center of their attention). The …

The Armenian Assembly of America informs that three more republican congressmen joined the group, which supports the issues of Armenia within the US Congress. The number of the supporters reached 152.

In December 2004, after long heated discussions and contradictions during closed sessions at the National Assembly, it was finally decided to send the Armenian troops to Iraq. However, yesterday Iraq did not discuss the issue of prolonging the time period in which Armenian troops will stay and the discussions were not heated. Everyone, including Arshak …