Politics

“I am the only person in this country who gives guns as presents, no one else does this. This problem is regulated by the existing law. These procedures are made according to the regulated decision of the Prime Minister, which defines the procedures, after which the relative documents are signed”,- said the RA Prime Minister …

The RA Prime Minister doesn’t worry about the intention of Artashes Tumanian to found a political party. Even more, he thinks that the citizens should use their rights provided by the Constitution and found both NGOs and political parties to participate in making decisions. “From this point of view I think this is democratic”,-said A.Margaryan. …

Probably this was the reason that “Justice” alliance secretary Viktor Dallakyan asked the same question and got the same answer from Prime Minister Andranik Margaryan several times. A.Margaryan brought the written mutual agreement with him to the National Assembly and started to read it noting beforehand, that some “deformations” had been made on it during …

“The requirements of Armenians in connection with Javakhk local government are promoted by the Russian investigation office efforts”,- says politician Rasim Musabekov, according to “Trend” news agency. According to him, Armenians have tried to keep good relations with Georgia till now, because Georgia connects Armenia with the world. According to “Regnum” agency, another politician, Zardusht …

OSCE special representative Goran Len Marker was in the National Assembly yesterday and met with Vahan Hovhannisyan and later with Arthur Baghdasaryan. In response to journalists’ questions concerning the current stage of the Karabakh conflict regulation development he said: “Now there is a golden chance to make progress in this development, which will be more …

Recently, the members of the famous rock group System of a Down, who are Armenian by nationality, organized a demonstration in front of House of Representatives speaker Dennis Hastert’s house. The two hundred people present at the demonstration demanded Dennis Hastert to take advantage of his right to put the Armenian Genocide resolution up for …

Moscow worries that constructing radio-location stations in Azerbaijan may be the first phase and that American mobile troops can be stationed there after the upcoming Azeri parliamentary elections in November. According to “Echo” newspaper, Russia is going to react to this by applying a visa system for Azerbaijan and making economic sanctions against it. It …

The following is how the MPs of the European Union voted on Turkey’s formula: “356-“for”, 181-“against”, 125-“neutral”. This is important for the Republic of Armenia in that there is one condition stated in that formula: the only way for Turkey to be admitted into the European Union is for the country to recognize the Armenian …

During a briefing with government members yesterday, Vice Minister of Finance and Economy of the RA Pavel Safaryan contradicted the announcement made by Azerbaijan, which states that the country’s military budget will equal the budget of the Republic of Armenia. “We also wish to provide the Ministry of Defense with the amount equivalent to Azerbaijan’s …

The observers from the OSCE met with candidates for the Central and Arabkir district chief before the district elections, which took place on September 25. The meeting with Central district chief candidates Ruzan Khachaturyan and Gagik Beglaryan left a good impression on the observers. The reason for this is that Gagik Beglaryan greeted his opponent …