Political board of ”Homeland” National Front has today addressed to people and intelligentsia calling upon decisive actions. Armenian Government decision to send an Armenian military unit of 50 soldiers to Iraq caused the call. {BR} ”We warn: If Parliament approves the risky decision, responsibility for all the grave consequences of it will fall on the regime and it will face the...

”There is only one Opposition in Armenia, Armenian Nationwide Movement. Others are the satellites of it. But ANM doesn’t enjoy enough trust among the vast masses to lead people or to settle problems”, Presidential Councilor Garnik Isagulyan announced in “Pakagits” Club. “Do Authorities enjoy?”, we asked. “Conduct a Trust Referendum and find it out”,...

Parliament Speaker and Land of Law Party Chair Arthur Baghdasaryan has today congratulated Artak Sargssyan, the newly-elected MP of N 44 election district. MPS joined with applause. After being registered MPs stood in memory of their colleague, Mushegh Movsesyan. {BR} Parliament has today passed 5 bills regarding granting privileges to the residents of the calamity zone, land tax, stock market etc. MPs...

Vahan Hovhannisyan, member of one of ruling coalition party Dashnaktsutyun, answering journalists’ questions Friday in National Press Club, made it clear that the party now has no intention to quit the coalition. “We can quit the coalition if it stops to correspond to our ideas”, he said.{BR} “Do the ruling coalition ideas correspond to Dashnaks’ ones now?” “Not...

Vahan Hovhannisyan, one of Dashnaktsutyun party leaders, speaking Friday in National Press Club voiced his discontent with views of the CE reporter on Nagorno Karabakh Terri Davis.{BR} “His latest report is composed by oil companies. It doesn’t reflect the CE point of view”, Hovhannisyan said. The Dashnak expressed his concern about the fact that the CE new-appointed reporter is...

Constitutional reforms are eventually included in National Assembly’s fall session agenda.{BR} Another important discussion is expected to be held at the nearest tree-day session: amendments to Election Code will be put on the National Assembly’s floor. The three-day session agenda includes 32 legislative initiatives.

“Security is one of Armenia’s top problems. South Caucasus is very vulnerable region especially because of national conflicts. Karabakh conflict should be solved peacefully, through mutual concessions”, Armenian defence minister Serje Sargssyan said Friday at his meeting with East European Union Assembly vice-chair Marco Zakera.{BR} Zakera, in turn, said Europe attaches great importance...

Participants of the discussion held Friday by the National Citizen’s Initiative compared current situation in Armenia with that of short period of Armenia’s independence from 1918 to 1920. Political analyst Artsrun Pepanyan said the then situation was even worse than one can imagine.{BR} He said quoting one of the then governors “we had neither state mentality nor state world vision”....

”Justice” Bloc Secretary Viktor Dallaqyan labeled the statement by Armenian FM Vardan Oskanyan who said “Karabakh is priceless” as the one of a field commander but announced he was as well signing under it. But Dallaqyan disagrees to the standpoint of the Minister that Armenia can progress without participating in the regional developments, without railway, gas pipe line and...

On Wednesday, presidential adviser Bagrat Yesayan, speaking in Yerevan’s Congress Hotel at a seminar focused on anticorruption program, said positive changes is being implemented slowly.{BR} In his words, the government’s anticorruption program that prompted so much criticism from the opposition led to improvement of court and tax systems. Yesayan said organizations will participate...

Constitutional reforms proposed by ruling coalition were discussed Wednesday at a seminar held in American University at the initiative of the Activity for the Sake of Community organisation.{BR} Two other versions have been proposed by United Labour Party parliamentary group and opposition MP Arshak Sadoyan. Our correspondent asked Arshak Sadoyan how could views of right-wing liberal Republicans,...

On Wednesday, Armenian foreign minister Vardan Oskanyan, speaking at a news conference in Yerevan, estimated positively Armenian and Azeri presidents’ meeting in Astana, Kazakhstan, but declined to give details. He said the presidents would tell all about the meeting if find it necessary.{BR} Presidents Rober Kocharyan and Ilkham Aliev met in Astana last week while attending the CIS summit....

On Friday, Nagorno-Karabakh Republic’s president Arkadi Ghukasyan granted amnesty to Karabakh war hero general Samvel Babayan convicted of masterminding the president assassination attempt and being kept in jail for 4,5 years.{BR} New Times party came up with a statement Monday reminding another statement issued recently by the party’s leader Aram Karapetyan together with Constitutional...

The issue of Armenia’s CE commitments fulfilment will be heard at the PACE fall session to be held from October 4 to 8 in Strasbourg, France. The report on Armenia is expected to be read up on October 8.{BR} Armenian National Assembly member Shavarsh Kocharyan says it is to become clear soon what way of development Armenia will chose. The MP attended PACE monitoring commission’s session...

Professor Gurgen Geghamyan, speaking Monday in National Library on Armenia’s independence, said Armenia had found itself in a hard situation because of the wrong policy the republic’s authorities pursue.{BR} In his opinion, Armenia’s independence started from two serious errors -closure of Nairit Chemical Plant and Metsamor Nuclear Power Plant – having strategic significance...

On Monday, Armenia’s Prosecutor General Aghvan Hovsepyan, answering the question Iravunk newspaper correspondent put to him, said the case against Artarutyun opposition bloc is closed. The case against former defense minister general-lieutenant Vagharshak Harutyunyan, who was charged with making seditious calls, attempting a coup and insulting the authorities, is dismissed as well, he said.{BR} Harutyunyan’s...

Member of Armenian National Assembly Mushegh Movsisyan, who was severely injured in car crush on May 28, died this Saturday after four months in hospital without recovering consciousness.{BR} Funeral will be held Monday in his native village of Aygek. Parliament speaker and Movsisyan’s colleagues expressed their condolences to his relatives.

The speech of Aram Sargssyan from “Republic” Party was greeted with stormy applause at the sitting of “Justice” Bloc. In response to the applause addressed to him, Sargssyan said they will deserve the applause when they act jointly. Then he made a speech. {BR} He announced the first action necessary to take is to combine the society. Everyone must realize that the struggle...

The conference of “Justice” Bloc took place. Leaders of bloc parties, their activists and intellectuals were present. {BR} Though Bloc had announced that the conference is open no one from Coalition parties or other parties in Opposition was present. Gagik Tadevosyan from “National Unity” partook in the conference. “Justice” Bloc Secretary Viktor Dallaqyan opened...

On September 17 NKR President Arkadi Ghukasyan looked through the applications on amnesty of the sentenced. {BR} Under the decision of Arkadi Ghukasyan, NKR ex Defense Minister Samvel Babayan and Erik Faramazyan who had attempted life of NKR President on March 22, 2000 are among those granted amnesty.

Tigran Torosyan, Vice-Speaker of Armenian Parliament and the head of the Armenian delegation in PACE thinks Armenia has fulfilled the PACE commitments, especially those stated in N 1374 resolution of April. {BR} Though “A1+” TV Company problem wasn’t settled and the demand is still making a plank in PACE resolution, Mr. Torosyan didn’t speak about the point. He only said...

”The former report of the ex-Rapporteur has today become a standpoint alone. It has no legal effect or continuation”, Tigran Torosyan, Armenian Parliament Vice-Speaker, who has partaken in the sitting of PACE Monitoring Commission in Paris on September 13-15, says. {BR} The preliminary report of Terry Davis, PACE ex-Spokesman of Karabakh, was introduced at the sitting. In fact, Mr. Torosyan...

While being at chairmanship in OSCE Bulgaria will continue taking steps for settlement of the conflicts in Kosovo, Nagorno Karabakh and Pridnistrovye. {BR} Bulgarian Foreign Minister Solomon Passy has told “Ria-Novosti” about this. He stated he was going to send his special representative, Bulgaria’s ex PM Pilip Dimitrov to Nagorno Karabakh for participation in the negotiations...

The spokesman on NKR was changed a few days ago. British parliamentarian David Atkinson will head the post instead of Terry Davis, the newly-elected Secretary General for PACE. {BR} Mr. Atkinson has already announced that he doesn’t intend to put forward his candidacy for the parliamentary elections of Great Britain next year. It means that parliamentarian David Atkinson will have a right to...