The Peak Public Affairs Committee of the Armenian-Australian Community (http://anc.org.au/news/Bob+Carr+U-Turns+on+Armenian+Genocide%3B+calls+it+a+%E2%80%9Chistorical+dispute%E2%80%9D+%5BVIDEO%5D) SYDNEY: The Armenian National Committee of Australia (ANC Australia) has slammed Foreign Affairs Minister Bob Carr for a monumental U-Turn on his stance regarding the Armenian Genocide. Carr, as Premier of Australia’s largest state of New South Wales, led his government to a unanimous…
On February 21, ARF-D Supreme Council of Armenia announced that the leader of Heritage (Zharangutyun) Party, Raffi Hovhannesyan right after his meeting with President Serj Sargsyan on February 21 met with ARF-D Chairman Hrant Margaryan and Supreme Council’s Chairman, Armen Rustamyan. The meeting between Hovhannesyan and the ARF-D delegation lasted for an hour and a…
Fellow compatriots, The Artsakh liberation movement marks its 25th anniversary today February the 20th. Thanks to Artsakh’s liberation movement a part of our homeland was freed, the independent statehood of our modern times was established. The Artsakh movement gave back to the people pride, determination to define its own fate, to fight and to win.…
Fellow citizens, Following the summing-up of Armenia’s Presidential election day at the polling stations, analyzing the received information and the preliminary results announced by the Central Electoral Commission, the ARF-D Supreme Council of Armenia states hereby its assessments. On February 18, the citizens of Armenia proved that there are limits to their patience, that they…
Announcement Taking under consideration the week-old developments in the region of Samtskhe-Javakhk, those being the separate rallies organized by the activists of the ruling “Georgian Dream” coalition and by Akhalkalak region officials supporting the “United National Movement”, the Samtskhe-Javakhk Armenian NGOs Coordinating Council urges the sides to give priority to the solution of a series…
Fellow citizens, You are well aware of the reasons ARF-D didn’t nominate a candidate for the presidential elections of the Republic of Armenia; our efforts to form a unified political agenda and to have a joint oppositional candidate didn’t deliver results. Under these circumstances, participating in a procedure with a predetermined ending would be senseless.…
In a meeting with the media, at Henaran press club, Director of ARF-D Bureau International Secretariat, Giro Manoyan refering to the latest murders of Armenian women, in Turkey, held the Turkish ruling power as the number one responsible for the implementation of the policy of violence in the country. “In reality, these latest incidents constitute…
The Hrayr Maroukhian Foundation (HMF), with the financial support of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) of Germany presented its study entitled, “Monopolies in Armenia” on February 11, 2013 at Ani Plaza Hotel in Yerevan. The HMF working group presented their findings regarding monopolies in the Republic of Armenia, which included the current situation of the markets in…
ARF-D “Nikol Aghbalyan” Student Association along with the Young Diplomats Club and the Young Getashen Youth Charity Foundation marched to UN office, today to deliver an open letter in relation to the latest killings of Armenian women in Turkey, Yerkir.am reports. Holding banners that wrote “Genocidal Turkey must be punished” and “No retreat to Turkey”…
Speaking to media representatives at “Urbat” Press club, today, ARF-D Bureau member Vahan Hovhannesyan commented on a number of issues having to do with recent domestic and international developments. ARF-D at the Socialist International Council At the Socialist International Council’s meeting that took place in Cascais, Portugal on February 4-5, Hovhannesyan was elected co-chair of…
