Politics

Artificial opposition

23.11.2005

According to head of “National Unity” political party Artashes Geghamyan, some processes have started in the political field that are very dangerous for the opposition. “The authorities try to make the existing opposition leave the political field and then artificially create new artificial powers, which will show that they are part of the opposition. New …

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We don’t monitor referendums

23.11.2005

Yesterday head of OSCE’s Yerevan branch Vladimir Priakhin said: “The RA authorities are to decide whether to invite observers to observe the referendum or not”. According to Mr. Priakhin OSCE is not responsible for observing referendums. He also said that they observe only nation-wide elections. “OSCE has never observed referendums. We didn’t observe the referendums …

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The situation in Aparan is getting dangerous

23.11.2005

On Saturday the nominated candidate of “Nig Aparan” got more 188 votes and won the elections for Aparan city mayor’s position. On Election Day, after the polling stations were closed the situation got very bad in Aparan and it was clear why a lot of police and national security officers had been taken to Aparan. …

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Erdoghan was wrong

23.11.2005

EU officer on enlargement issues Oli Ren said that it was wrong of Erdoghan not to agree to organize a press conference with Denmark prime minister Anders Rasmusen. According to Turkish “New Anatolia” news agency Oli Ren said that they shouldn’t make journalists leave the press conference hall. Last week the fact that Erdoghan didn’t …

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Political reasons

23.11.2005

According to Turkish “Hurriet” newspaper, head of Kandili foundation Tigran Gevorgyan said that the Armenian Genocide wasn’t really a Genocide. “This was a conflict, during which there were tragic incidents”, -he said. And according to this man this conflict was a result of political, social and economic developments. According to this man the fact that …

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The Armenian Republican Party can’t make a decision

23.11.2005

Whereas the leader of the “National Unity” political party came to terms with the members of the boycott and the committee and called them back yesterday, the “Justice” alliance, on the other hand, has not been able to do that. According to secretary of the “Justice” party of the National Assembly Victor Dallakyan, they had …

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From the Battle of Waterloo to Borodin

23.11.2005

It turns out that Geghamyan accepts the announcements made by some when they claim him to be a mine. However, according to the NU president, he is a mine installed not under the opposition, but rather the authorities. We will talk about mines and mine clearers later. Artashes Geghamyan held a conference yesterday to announce …

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Voting for pork, beef, chicken…

22.11.2005

Now you can see a lot of campaign posters attached everywhere in Yerevan. For example there were posters attached on the windows of this shop (on Dimitrov Street, not far from the market place) campaigning for the Constitution. It was written “vote for your future” on those posters, but just above the poster it was …

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John Evans left the hall

22.11.2005

The US ambassador attended the meeting of farmers that took place at the Agrarian university of Yerevan. When Vardan Oskanyan was trying to connect the effectiveness of the aid provided by the US, John Evans left the room with his interpreter. By doing this Mr. Evans wanted to prove that the process of the referendum …

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More power for the president

22.11.2005

Ex Prime Minister Hrant Bagratyan thinks that the existing Constitution is better from the view of property protection, and now in Armenia property is distributed with the same proportion as the parliamentary places are distributed among the coalition powers in the National Assembly. According to Mr. Bagratyan it doesn’t matter what they say about this, …

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