In December 8-9, a two-member delegation of the Youth Organization of ARF-D (AYF) comprised of Garabet Shadoyan and Lena Hovivyan, participated in the General Assembly of the Youth of the Socialist Party of Austria (SPÖ), in Vienna. Three hundred delegates representing different regions of Austria as well as members of the party and representatives from…
(news.am) – Armenia’s political forces are not obligated to accelerate the publicizing of their platforms in the run-up to the presidential elections in February, opposition ARF Dashnaktsutyun Party member Arsen Hambardzumyan said during the respective intra-party discussions. In his words, ARF is not impacted by foreign players when forming its political agenda. “We are an…
ARF-D Press Office issued a communiqué, stating that ARF-D Bureau Chairman Hrant Margaryan and Supreme Council Chairman Armen Rustamyan held a meeting with President Serj Sargsyan, in December 8. During the meeting that was long, the sides discussed about ARF-D’s seven-point platform, which aims at radically reforming and sanitizing the state-public and political spheres of…
In December 6, ARF-D hosted a conference titled “Under a united agenda for the presidential election” at Erebuni Plaza hotel in Yerevan and presented its seven-point platform to the audience. Parliamentary and off-parliamentary political forces and numerous civil society representatives attended the conference among them Tigran Ourikhanyan and Vahe Enfiadjyan from the Prosperous Armenia Party,…
In December 4, Head of ARF-D Parliamentary Faction, Armen Rustamyan made the following statement from the Parliament’s floor: Dear compatriots, As you know, ARF-D took the initiative of uniting society under the “with one agenda towards the presidential election” slogan. This initiative derives from our conviction that – first, is imperative to form and accept…
By Maria Titizian (Asbarez, December 3) – Hundreds of employees of the Nairit chemical plant, one of the largest industrial plants in Armenia, protested in front of the presidential palace on Baghramyan Street last week. They weren’t demanding pay increases or assurances for workplace safety; rather they were demanding something which the majority of us…
(Azatutyun.am, November 30) – The Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun) and other major opposition force have made no progress so far towards the possible nomination of a joint candidate for the upcoming presidential election, a Dashnaktsutyun leader said on Friday. Armen Rustamian said his party has yet to drum up broad-based opposition support for support for…
On November 24-25, ARF-D held an organizational conference of the party’s executive bodies in Yerevan with the participation of representatives from all the Central Committees, Armenia’s Supreme Council and other regions. During the conference, the ARF-D Bureau presented the brief report of its multifaceted activities in the last twelve months. Among the top items on…
(Brussels, 29 November 2012) Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF) Bureau member, ARF member of the Republic of Armenia National Assembly, coordinator of “Ognir Eghbort” (“Help your Brother”) non-governmental organization Vahan Hovhannesyan, together with the President of European Armenian Federation for Justice and Democracy Kaspar Karampetian, visited the European Parliament in Brussels and held a meeting with Member…
According to a1plus.am, on November 28, the ARF-D Parliamentary Faction applied to the Parliament’s Committee on Ethics calling for a scrutiny of the failure to have a quorum and hold the November 21st extraordinary sitting. ARF-D cites article 6.1, subsections a, c, and f of paragraph 2, of the Rules of Procedure of the National…
