On October 14, representatives from AYF Europe chapters met with the leaderships of the International Falcon Movement-Socialist Educational International (IFM-SEI) and the Young European Socialists (YES), at the latter’s premises in Brussels, Belgium. AYF is a member of the above mentioned organizations. The discussion with the IFM-SEI leadership went around the possibility of upgrading the…
On October 16, Mountainous Karabakh (Artsakh) Republic President, Bako Sahakyan, Vice Prime Minister Artur Aghabekyan, Foreign Affairs Minister, Karen Mirzoyan, Press secretary of the President, Davit Babayan other MKR officials met with Belgian senators, at the country’s Senate to discuss about Artsakh and to present them Artsakh’s positions. The Belgian delegation, under senator André du…
Kurdistan Regional Government’s financial, scientific and cultural issues were touched at the 3rd World Kurdish Scientific Congress which was convened on October 11-13, 2013, in Stockholm, Sweden. During the three-day event experts in the aforementioned fields delivered presentations and reports and laid the foundations for future plans. The main objectives of the Congress were the…
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…
A roundtable discussion on the Human Rights situation in Azerbaijan was held on September 24, 2013 in the European Parliament, just two weeks prior to the October 9 presidential elections in Azerbaijan. Once more, several members of the European Parliament criticized the non-protection of Human Rights and the absence of Democratic values in the country.…
(horizonweekly.ca) – Canadian Parliamentarians Continue to Show Leadership in the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic’s Development The Honourable Stephane Dion, Member of Parliament for Saint-Laurent –Cartierville and former Leader of the Official Opposition visited the Republic of Armenia and the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic from September 21 to 27, 2013. Mr. Dion’s visit allowed him to view first-hand the progress…
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…
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…
(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…
A closed-door session between Armenia’s Foreign Minister, Edward Nalbandyan and members of the Parliament was held on September 10 where Armenia’s decision to join the Russian-led Customs Union was discussed. Head of ARF-D Parliamentary Faction, Armen Rustamyan spoke to media representatives about the three questions he posed to FM Nalbandyan. The first one was about…
