Politics

In the governmental arena the fight for the process of filtering and recruitment of loyalists is becoming tenser. The forces that are in the government and the ones that strive for more power are constantly trying to recruit new people in order to become more powerful because in order to succeed in elections even the …

The White House officially nominated Matthew Bryza as the next U.S. Ambassador to Azerbaijan. Bryza currently serves as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, and until recently was the U.S. Co-Chair to the OSCE Minsk Group charged with helping to negotiate a settlement of the Nagorno Karabagh conflict. Bryza’s appointment still …

– What influence may the resolution 2216 adopted by the European Parliament have on the international reputation and foreign policy of Armenia? Or is this a certain hint regarding the resolution of the NKR conflict? – This resolution has exposed all the dangerous motives, which have existed in the foreign policy of Armenia of the …

Yesterday the European Parliament Resolution on the Southern Caucasus created a real panic in the governmental elite of Armenia. The legislative body of European Union claims that Karabakh is to be allocated an interim status, and the Armenian military forces are to withdraw from the “occupied areas of Azerbaijan.” It is additional to mention the …

The recent conflicts within the governments are more often published in the media. Specifically, yesterday during the parliamentary discussion on the law on TV and radio the speaker of the NA Hovik Abrahamyan again criticized the government for sending draft laws to the parliament in an urgent manner. He said that because of it the …

The intergovernmental conflicts have become obvious during the four-day session of the National Assembly. Was it the change of the building or the conflicts that caused the conduct of the session in a not quite “engaged” manner. This time the chairman of the Republican faction Galust Sahakyan doubled his efforts in order to bring in some …

Yesterday the Prime Minister of Turkey Erdogan left fro Baku, where according to the Turkish media, he had presented to the Azerbaijani authorities a new program of resolving the NKR conflict. In particular, according to the Turkish Hurriyet newspaper Erdogan presented to Aliyev a program, which anticipates the return of the two regions out of …

Opposition ANC member of the dissolved fact-finding group Andranik Kocharyan and Heritage party member Seda Safaryan have published a report, which concerns the events of March 1 of 2008 and the fact of the army’s involvement in the post-election developments. In the beginning of the report they write that the report of the NA ad …

The RA president Serzh Sargsyan has issued an order to establish an ad hoc to discuss and adopt a new judicial draft law and adopt a new code based on it. Yesterday we were informed about this by the head of the NA standing committee on state and legal affairs Davit Harutyunyan. He said that …

Yesterday the NA Standing Committee on Legal Issues discussed the bill on amending the RA civil code related to the provisions on decriminalization of offenses and false information. Let us recall that this bill was adopted by the first reading. This version of the bill was re-elaborated. It preliminarily implied quite dangerous provisions for the …