(Yerevan) – The Socialist International Council meeting started on Sunday, November 10 in Istanbul, Turkey. The ARF-D was represented by Bureau member and SI Vice President, Mario Nalbandian and Head of the ARF-D International Secretariat, Giro Manoyan. The SI Statutory Committee on Finance and Administration, where the ARF-D is a member, convened its session on…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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“We Will Live In Our Country” Anti-Emigration Plan
Today, at a specially convened press conference ARF-D Supreme Council members, Armen Rustamyan and Artsvik Minasyan presented the party’s “We will live in our country” plan against emigration, yerkirmedia.am reports. The 11 directives and 95 operations comprising this plan, will not only counter emigration which has reached the proportions of being a threat to national…
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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…
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ARF-D Press Release
The announcement in Moscow, of Armenia’s decision to join the Customs Union was as much a landmark as it was a decision dictating great responsibility for the future of Armenia. It is possible to assume that at some point, considering the geopolitical state and developments, Armenia would join the Customs Union initiated by its strategic ally and…
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Enlarged Conference of ARF-D Local Chapters’ Representatives
Press Release The enlarged conference of ARF-D Local Chapters’ representatives convened on August 24-26, in Yerevan. Representatives and guests from the local Chapters of the homeland and abroad took part in this panarmenian gathering. The purpose of this gathering, which was an ARF-D Bureau initiative, was to evaluate organizational matters, the situation in the wider…
