(Agencia Prensa Armenia)- An Armenian National Assembly delegation met with Vice President of Argentina , Amado Boudou and a group of Argentine deputies in the Senate on Tuesday 26 November. The armenian delegation was led by National Assembly Speaker Hovik Abrahamyan, along with Deputies David Harutyunyan, Armen Rustamyan, Volodya Badalyan, Artak Davtyan, Naira Zohrabyan, Heghine…
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Open Letter From “N. Aghbalyan” Student Association To Coalition’s Youth Organizations
Open letter addressed to the Youth Organizations of the Armenian Republican and Rule of Law Parties and to the Student Councils of Armenia’s State and non State Universities With this letter we would like to draw your attention on a number of issues included in the legislative package about the mandatory accumulative pension system that…
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ARF-D Sees Vagueness Around Customs Union Process
(source: azatutyun.am RFE/RL) – On November 20, Head of the ARF-D International Secretariat, Giro Manoyan told media representatives that his party is worried and discontent with the vagueness surrounding the Customs Union joining process because there is no concrete information about it and that “is not a sign of anything good” he said. “Vagueness causes…
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Announcement of the Conference of the ANCs of the American Continent and Australia
The Conference of the Armenian National Committees of the American continent and Australia was held on November 16-17, in Montreal, Canada. Representatives from the ANCs of Canada, Eastern USA, Western USA and Australia as well as a delegation from the Washington office of the Armenian National Committee of America attended the Conference. The global political…
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Violence Claims More Armenian Lives in Syria
(armenianweekly.com) DAMASCUS, Syria — In recent weeks the Syrian conflict has claimed a number of Armenian victims, including two children, whose loss has shocked the community. On Nov. 11, as students were released from the Holy Translators Armenian National School (Azgayin Surb Targmanjats Jemaran) in the Bab Tuma district, a mortar fell by the main…
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Opposition Issues Statement
On November 15, 2013, an extraordinary session of the Armenian Parliament was initiated to discuss the postponement for a year of the implementation of the mandatory component of the pension system reform. The session did not convene because of the majority’s (Republican Party of Armenia, Rule of Law Party) boycott. And this came just a…
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The Incompatible Pension System Reform And The Insufficient Budget
“Until now we have worked on building solidarity between the generations. It has been a moral value for the child to tend for his father who has tended for his when he was a child. We are now resigning from this legacy. We are cutting our nation off its tradition and its roots. This cannot…
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“Nigol Aghbalyan” Student Association Awards Worst Governance Cup
On November 14, on the occasion of the November 17 International Students’ Day, the ARF-D “Nigol Aghbalyan” Student Association rallied on the streets of Yerevan, protesting against high tuition, low scholarships, emigration, corruption, monopolies, inefficient governance etc. The protesters called the government to STOP the policies which have led the country into today’s grave reality,…
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Manoyan: Turkey’s Project To Reopen Railway “Aims At Azerbaijan”
(ISTANBUL – Hürriyet Daily News) Giro Manoyan, director of the international secretariat of the Dashnaktsutyun, says Turkey’s consideration on reopening railway between Turkey and Armenia is aimed at ‘opening a position in negotiations with Azerbaijan.’ Manoyan was in Istanbul to attend the Socialist International meeting. Hüseyin Hayatsever [email protected] Turkey’s consideration about reopening the railway between…
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Another BDP-ARFD High-level Meeting, a First in Istanbul
Yerevan (12 December) — A high-level meeting between delegations representing the Armenian Revolutionary Federation-Dashnaktsutyun and the Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) of Turkey was held today in Istanbul. This was the first time since 1923 that an official ARF-D delegation was visiting Istanbul. The BDP delegation was led by Nazmi Gür, head of BDP’s foreign…
