International Relations

AYF Takes Part In SJÖ Congress

Upon the invitation of the Socialist Youth Austria (Sozialistische Jugend Österreich, SJÖ), a delegation of the Armenian Youth Federation (AYF) comprised of Garabed Chadoian (Austria) and Serj Ter Hakobyan (Germany) took part in the SJÖ annual Congress which was convened in Felden, from October 31 to November 3. Almost 250 representatives from Austria, Sweden, the…

High-ranking ARF-D, BDP Meeting In Washington

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

[Updated] Canadian Parliamentarians Continue To Show Leadership In The Nagorno Karabakh Republic’s Development

(horizonweekly.ca) – Canadian Parliamentarians Continue to Show Leadership in the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic’s Development The Honourable Stephane Dion, Member of Parliament for Saint-Laurent –Cartierville and former Leader of the Official Opposition visited the Republic of Armenia and the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic from September 21 to 27, 2013. Mr. Dion’s visit allowed him to view first-hand the progress…

Papandreou, Margaryan Exchange Views On Regional Developments

ARF-D Bureau Chairman, Hrant Margaryan held a meeting with the President of the Socialist International, former Prime Minister of Greece and PASOK party’s previous leader, George Papandreou, on September 17, in Athens. Papandreou and Margaryan discussed about the effects the financial crisis has had on the region, issues of interest for the Socialist International as…

Margaryan Discusses Custom’s Union, Hovhanessyan Ambassadorship

(armenianweekly.com) – In an interview recently with the “Yerkrin Hartse” program in Armenia, Hrant Markarian, the chairperson of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF) Bureau, presented the ARF’s stance on various problems facing the Armenian Republic. Since Sept. 3, he said, when Armenia decided to join the Russian-led Custom’s Union, most of the discussions and debates…