On September 4, ARF-D’s Supreme Council of Armenia issued a statement about the upcoming elections from which will emerge the new local administration authorities. The Supreme Council expresses its regret about the non progress of Armenia on this subject although it has been 16 years from their establishment, saying that “we have to assess the…
The XXIV Congress of the Socialist International took place from August 30 to September 1 2012 in Cape Town, South Africa. Over four hundred participants from more than one hundred political parties and organisations gathered for the event that took place under the heading of ‘For a New Internationalism and a New Culture of Solidarity’.…
NEW YORK—The fourth instalment of the Armenians and Progressive Politics (APP) conference focusing on “Armenia at 21” will be held at Columbia University on Sept. 28-29, 2012. The conference will bring together distinguished activists, academics, and politicians from Armenia, Europe, South America, and the U.S. This year’s conference will address topics on the environment, foreign…
GYUMRI (Satenik Vantsian / RFE-RL) – The Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun) became on Monday the first opposition party to field a candidate for an upcoming mayoral election in Armenia’s second largest city of Gyumri. The candidate, Hovsep Simonyan, was presented at a news conference held by Dashnaktsutyun leaders in Gyumri and the surrounding Shirak province.…
The Hrayr Maroukhian Foundation presents the first volume of the Journal of Socialism and Democracy, which includes three articles (in armenian): “The Perception of the Ideas of Democracy and Socialism through the Centuries,” “The ARF’s Vision of Democracy and Socialism,” “The Principles of Socialism – Freedom, Justice, Equality and Solidarity.” This Journal is intended to…
YEREVAN (Irina Hovhannisyan / RFE-RL)–Armenia must not encourage a mass out-migration of ethnic Armenians from Syria and thereby eliminate a key Diaspora community in the Middle East, the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun) said on Wednesday. “People willing to come here must be helped, but we must not initiate their relocation,” said Giro Manoyan, the foreign…
The meeting of the SI Committee for the CIS, Caucasus and Black Sea was held in Chişinău on 23-24 July and hosted by the Democratic Party of Moldova and was attended by representatives of the member parties from Moldova, Belarus, Georgia, Ukraine, Russian Federation, Kazakhstan, Armenia, Poland, Hungary and Greece. ARF-D’s delegation was comprised of…
In a statement issued on June 30, the ARF-D Yerevan District Assembly expresses its deep grief for the killing of army medical doctor Vahe Avetyan that took place at the Harsnakar restaurant on June 17. Moreover, the Assembly’s statement describes the event as a slap on the faces of society and the lawful and democratic…
The Hrayr Maroukhian Foundation with the support of the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung hosted a presentation and roundtable discussion on the publication of “Economics and Social Democracy” at Ani Plaza Hotel on June 11. This is the second volume of the series “Social Democracy Readers” prepared by the Academy for Social Democracy (Bonn, Germany). The first…
In case of election fraud, the Joint Inter-Party Center For Public Oversight Of Elections which includes ARF-D, the Armenian National Congress (HAK) and Prosperous Armenia (BHK) could hold joint actions. “Joint actions, joint positions on issues are possible” said the Head of ARF-D’s proportional list, Vahan Hovhannesyan adding that “this doesn’t mean that a bloc…
