“Whoever becomes President cannot avoid taking under consideration ARF-D’s political agenda” said ARF-D Armenia’s Supreme Council Chairman, Armen Rustamyan during a press conference that was held at the party’s “Simon Vratsyan” premises, today. According to tert.am Rustamyan said that the party will try to unite the population and added that “history tells us that whenever…
The upcoming presidential elections of February 2013 are a unique opportunity to reassess the road our statehood has taken so far, to correctly formulate the problems that the country and society face, to outline the actions that will provide the population’s welfare, to counter with dignity the challenges on the foreign affairs front. It is…
Asked by www.1in.am about the 2013 budget, ARF-D Member of Parliament and Vice Chairman of the Parliament’s Standing Committee on Financial-Credit and Budgetary Affairs, Artsvik Minasyan said that it’s true that the challenges standing before Armenia are many, deep and extensive. The budget is supposed to counter a big part of these challenges but that…
ARF-D Parliamentary Faction‘s Secretary and Supreme Council Vice-chairman, Aghvan Vardanyan during an interview with Azatutuyn radio station (November 1st) didn’t exclude the possibility for the opposition to nominate a strong candidate to run against President Sargsyan on the upcoming elections. “The situation in Armenia is of that sort, that any development is possible” he said…
The “through surgical intervention” anticorruption struggle should lead to jail and not to discharge stated ARF-D Member of Parliament, Vahan Hovhannesyan in response to Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan’s call addressed to the oppositional political parties to join the anticorruption struggle. Hovhannesyan reminded that ARF-D had proposed a legislative measure in order to have a non-authoritative…
On October 31, 2012, the Hrayr Maroukhian Foundation with the financial support of Counterpart International and USAID held its second round table for the project, “Transforming Street Action to Institutional Change: Environmental Policy Dialogue” at the Congress Hotel in Yerevan. Taking part in the discussion were environmental activists, NGOs, university professors, experts and representatives from…
In reference to the 2013 state budget parliamentary hearings that began on October 30, ARF-D member, Artsvik Minasyan said that the proposed draft is neither bold nor aims at solving the challenges that the country is facing, at the moment. “The biggest challenge in Armenia is about creating jobs and it seems like the state…
The Peak Public Affairs Committee of the Armenian-Australian Community SYDNEY: The President of the Republic of Nagorno Karabakh, Bako Sahakyan, personally extended his gratitude on behalf of his nation to the Armenian National Committee of Australia (ANC Australia) and to the state of New South Wales. During a telephone call arranged between Sahakyan and ANC…
On October 26, during a scheduled meeting with the Press at the Parliament, the Head of ARF-D Parliamentary Faction and Supreme Council’s Chairman, Armen Rustamyan stated that the two-party system cannot be applied in Armenia. He reminded that a session of the party’s Supreme Assembly will be convened in December during which ARF-D’s form of…
On October 22, the second cargo plane carrying “Help Your Brother” civil initiative’s humanitarian aid landed in Syria, ARF-D Member of Parliament and “Help Your Brother” coordinator, Vahan Hovhannesyan said in an interview with Yerkir.am. This time the flight was made possible with the cooperation of Syrian Airlines. Hovhannesyan said that the second aid was…
