(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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The ARF-D Panarmenian Youth Conference
The ARF-D Youth and Student Organizations’ Panarmenian Conference took place on November 8-10, at the party’s “Aram Manougian” Youth premises in Yerevan. Twenty-five delegates from 17 chapters from Canada, Eastern and Western USA, South America, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, France, Lebanon, North and South Iran, Artsakh and Armenia participated in the Conference. It is…
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New ESI report: Disgraced – Azerbaijan and the end of election monitoring as we know it
The following letter appeared on the ESI Newsletter Dear friends of ESI, A few weeks ago, in early October 2013, some 1,300 international observers from 50 different organisations arrived in Azerbaijan to monitor presidential elections. Forty-nine monitoring groups praised the elections as free and fair, meeting European standards. One group concluded that there were “significant…
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Vardanyan Comments On Recent Clashes In Yerevan
ARF-D Parliamentary Faction Secretary, Aghvan Vardanyan was asked by Yerkir.am to comment on the November 5 clashes between protesters and the police. “A youth fighting for the future of our state, a youth not satisfied with this reality is among our country’s accomplishments over the last years. Today the situation both on the foreign and…
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Government Includes Parts of ARF-D Anti-Emigration Plan
(armenpress.am) – ARF-D is preparing to shortly publish the “We will live in our country” anti-emigration plan said to Armenpress, ARF-D Parliamentary Faction member, Artsvik Minasyan. The government has included parts of that plan into various draft bills. “Certainly the government’s approach is acceptable but there are deficiencies on the implementation part. We intend to…
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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…
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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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ARF-D Urges President to Oversee Proshyan Murder Investigation
(asbarez.com) YEREVAN — Seeing no justice for the murder of Proshyan Mayor Hrach Muradian, an Artsakh freedom fighter and a popular leader in the Kotayk Region, the Armenian Revolutionary Federation led hundreds, including villagers, to gather at the presidential residence to demand that President Serzh Sarkisian oversee the murder investigation, which has been stalled since…
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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…
