On Tuesday, October 29, a delegation of Turkey’s pro-Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) headed by its co-chairman Selahattin Demirtaş, visited the ANCA Washington office and met with a delegation headed by ARF-D Bureau member, Hagop Der Khachadourian. The possibilities of Armenian Kurdish cooperation as well as the national and democratic aspirations of the Armenian…
Monthly Archives: October 2013
Bureau, In Politics, International Relations, Issues of Interest & Concern, Leadership, News, Other Countries
ARF-D Attends Washington Kurdish Conference
Explores Avenues for Armenian-Kurdish Cooperation (armenianweekly.com) WASHINGTON — Kurdish political leaders from Turkey, Syria, Iran, and Iraq were joined on Oct. 28 by a broad cross-section of the Washington, D.C. foreign policy community at an all-day conference on the “The Kurdish Role in the New Middle East”. The conference, the first ever organized in Washington…
Issues of Interest & Concern, News
ARF-D Urges President to Oversee Proshyan Murder Investigation
(asbarez.com) YEREVAN — Seeing no justice for the murder of Proshyan Mayor Hrach Muradian, an Artsakh freedom fighter and a popular leader in the Kotayk Region, the Armenian Revolutionary Federation led hundreds, including villagers, to gather at the presidential residence to demand that President Serzh Sarkisian oversee the murder investigation, which has been stalled since…
Armenia, Bureau, In Politics, Issues of Interest & Concern, Leadership, Mountainous Karabakh, News
Third European Armenian Convention. Karabakh President In The European Parliament.
Armenians from all over Europe were gathered in Brussels, Belgium for the 3rd European Armenian Convention, convened on October 14-15 and organized by the European Armenian Federation for Justice and Democracy (EAFJD). On October 14, the Convention took place at the Armenian Cultural Center where EAFJD President, Kaspar Karampetian delivered the opening remarks. Mountainous Karabakh…
International Relations, News
AYF Meets With IFM-SEI And YES Leaderships
On October 14, representatives from AYF Europe chapters met with the leaderships of the International Falcon Movement-Socialist Educational International (IFM-SEI) and the Young European Socialists (YES), at the latter’s premises in Brussels, Belgium. AYF is a member of the above mentioned organizations. The discussion with the IFM-SEI leadership went around the possibility of upgrading the…
In Politics, International Relations, Issues of Interest & Concern, Mountainous Karabakh, News, Other Countries
Karabakh President’s Meetings in Belgium and the Netherlands
On October 16, Mountainous Karabakh (Artsakh) Republic President, Bako Sahakyan, Vice Prime Minister Artur Aghabekyan, Foreign Affairs Minister, Karen Mirzoyan, Press secretary of the President, Davit Babayan other MKR officials met with Belgian senators, at the country’s Senate to discuss about Artsakh and to present them Artsakh’s positions. The Belgian delegation, under senator André du…
In Politics, International Relations, Issues of Interest & Concern, News, Other Countries
EAFJD President Addresses World Kurdish Congress
Kurdistan Regional Government’s financial, scientific and cultural issues were touched at the 3rd World Kurdish Scientific Congress which was convened on October 11-13, 2013, in Stockholm, Sweden. During the three-day event experts in the aforementioned fields delivered presentations and reports and laid the foundations for future plans. The main objectives of the Congress were the…
Armenia, Bureau, In Politics, International Relations, Leadership, News, Other Countries
The ARF-D Representative At SI Presidium’s Meeting In New York
Members of the Socialist International Presidium, heads of state and government from SI member parties, heads of UN agencies and international organisations and a number of foreign ministers gathered at the United Nations headquarters in New York on the 26th September for the 6th annual meeting in conjunction with the UN General Assembly. The meeting…
