(Nicosia) Vice-President of the Socialist International and member of ARF-D Bureau Mario Nalbandian arrived in Cyprus by the invitation of the Cyprus Socialist EDEK party. On Monday 31 March, Nalbandian met EDEK founder and Honorary President Dr. Vassos Lyssarides who referred to his visit to Armenia in 1999 upon the invitation of the ARF-D Bureau,…
(asbarez.com) YEREVAN (RFE/RL)—Armenia’s four main political parties challenging President Serzh Sarkisian agreed on Tuesday to stage joint rallies later this month in support of a vote of no confidence in the government sought by them in parliament. Gagik Tsarukian’s Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK) and the three established opposition groups represented in the National Assembly will…
The ARF-D Press Office reporter interviewed ARF-D Bureau member, Chairman of the Armenian Cause Central Council (ANC International) Hagop Der-Khatchadourian Question – About four weeks ago, on the occasion of the anniversary of Hrant Dink’s assassination, PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan’s letter was first published in Istanbul’s “Agos” weekly. So far, the ARF-D has not officially…
BERLIN (ArmRadio)—Armenian Ambassador to Germany Vahan Hovannisyan officially submitted his credentials to German President Joachim Gauck on Monday in what is a ceremonious gesture before taking seat as ambassador. President Gauck and Ambassador Hovannisyan discussed what they called the dynamic political dialogue between Armenia and Germany, their deepening cooperation within international organizations, further development of…
YEREVAN—Member of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation’s (ARF-D) Supreme Council of Armenia and Member of Parliament Aghvan Vardanyan met on Thursday with representatives of the UK’s Labour Party in Yerevan. The Labour Party Members, Stephen Pound and Mike Gapes, were on visit to Armenia with a delegation of other British members of parliament led by John…
(arminfo.am) – ARFD Party Faction in the Armenian Parliament supports the ruling coalition’s initiative to set up an ad hoc committee to study gas problems, ARFD representative Artsvik Minasyan told ArmInfo. He said that the coalition-suggested project resembles the one ARFD submitted yet in 2010 but contains some more issues connected with the latest sale…
The “Help Your Brother” foundation continues providing assistance to Syrian Armenians especially those having settled in Armenia. From February 12 and for five days on, from 12:00-18:00 pm, and with the cooperation of the Christian Medical Association food aid will be supplied to around 500 Syrian Armenian families at the Armenian Scouts’ Organization offices (17/6…
Members of the ARF-D “Nikol Aghbalyan” Student Association and the Armenian Youth Federation were gathered near Armenia’s Foreign Ministry today, to protest against the false parity policy in connection to the Azerbaijani aggression, applied by the OSCE Minsk Group which is mandated with resolving the Nagorno Karabakh conflict. The Minsk Group Co-Chairs James Warlick (USA),…
(aysor.am) – Four factions of the Armenian parliament – ARFD, Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK), Armenian National Congress (HAK) and Heritage factions have issued a joint statement concerning the law on introduction of the compulsory accumulative pension system. The statement says: “On January 24, 2014 Armenia’s Constitutional Court took a decision to suspend Article 76 and…
The Chairman of the ARF-D Supreme Body of Armenia, Mikayel Manukyan, will take the place of former Member of Parliament Vahan Hovhannisyan who was recently appointed by President Sargsyan to the post of Ambassador in Germany. The decision was taken at the January 13, 2014 session of the Supreme Body. Mikayel Manukyan was born on…
