(armenianweekly.com) YEREVAN—The Commission on Armenia’s Constitutional Reforms, which is headed by President Serge Sargsyan, released the final version of the draft amendments to the constitution on Aug. 21. The draft amendments meet 90-95 percent of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation – Dashnaktsutyun’s (ARF-D) expectations, ARF-D parliamentary faction secretary Aghvan Vardanyan told reporters on Aug. 24, when…
The following statement was released after the Aug. 10 extraordinary plenary session of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation – Dashnaktsutyun (ARF-D) Bureau, convened in Yerevan. *** The Armenian Revolutionary Federation – Dashnaktsutyun is greatly concerned about the Turkish government’s warmongering politics that has been once again adopted vis-à-vis the Kurdish people. Instead of continuing the peace…
(armenianweekly.com) NEW YORK—On July 8 and 9, the Socialist International Women’s (SIW) Council met at the United Nations headquarters in New York to discuss pressing issues facing women globally. “Equality is not an issue for women, it is an issue for humanity as a whole,” commented SIW Vice-President Diva Gastelum Bajo. The opening speech delivered…
On Tuesday, July 6, 2015, the Socialist International Council, meeting in the United Nations headquarters in New York, decided to take action regarding the issue of the Armenian Genocide. SI Secretary General Luis Ayala informed the Council, that for the last two days the SI leadership has been consulting with the SI member parties from…
(armenianweekly.com) The Armenian Revolutionary Federation – Dashnaktsutyun (ARF-D) Press Office on June 23 issued the following statement regarding the recent assault on and arrest of protesters for demanding the reversal of the decision to increase electricity tariffs in Armenia. Over the past few days, representatives of Armenian civil society organized protests, demanding the annulment of…
BUDAPEST—The 10th Congress of the Party of European Socialists (PES) approved the Armenian Revolutionary Federation – Dashnaktsutyn’s (ARF-D) membership in the organization as an observer member. The Congress, which took place in Budapest on June 12-13, also approved the accession of Georgia’s Georgian Dream Party, as well as socialist parties from Egypt, Morocco, and Italy.…
The meeting of the Socialist International Committee for the CIS, the Caucasus and the Black Sea took place on the June 8-9, in Yerevan, Armenia, was hosted by the ARF-D and was attended by members of the socialist and social democratic parties of the Russian Federation, Ukraine, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Belarus, Moldova, Hungary, Tajikistan and Azerbaijan.…
A one-day seminar titled “The role of the political party in promoting women’s mobilization”, co-organised by ARF-D and the Armenian Association of Women with University Education (AAWUE), took place on June 9, 2015. The panelists contributed with presentations and remarks which were followed by a session of questions-and-answers as well as of proposals voiced by…
Young European Socialists (YES) Bureau meeting took place on May 29-30, 2015 in Riga, Latvia. All the full members of the organisation took part in the meeting. The Armenian Youth Federation (AYF) was represented by Aren Kerteshian (France). The meeting’s agenda included the drawing of the action plan of the forthcoming two-year term, the discussion…
(source: tert.am) While his series of articles, “Sunset that must be suspended”, was being introduced to the reader through the newspaper Yerkir, Vahan Hovhannisyan, a long-time member of the party who served as Armenia’s ambassador to Germany in the final period of his life, would often call the publication’s then editor, Harutyun Harutyunyan, to ask,…
