On December 10, the “A Just Russia” party held its Congress in order to elect a presidential candidate for the 2012 elections. The Congress discussed the results of the State Duma elections that took place recently and brought “A Just Russia” to the third place with 13.2% with almost twice as many votes as at…
ARF-D Member of Parliament Ruzan Arakelyan summarizing 2011’s major events stated that there are serious issues to concern when it comes to the Mountainous Karabakh conflict though the Armenian side hasn’t made any setbacks. In the field of foreign affairs, Arakelyan highlighted Uruguay Foreign Minister Luis Almagro’s conviction that Mountainous Karabakh has been a “part…
ARF-D Member of Parliament Armen Rustamyan has revealed that ARF-D is considering of appealing to the Ombudsman in case it doesn’t collect the signatures of a minimum of 27 MP’s in order to take the case to the Constitutional Court. ARF-D is convinced that the government acted outside the 2008-2012 policy framework and it failed…
During a press conference that ARF-D Parliamentary Faction’s Secretary Artashes Shahbazyan gave jointly with his fellow colleague Artsivk Minasyan, Shahbazyan commenting on the Party’s Parliamentary performance stated that it was sufficient. “We did our work and we kept our Party’s features” he said and added that ARF-D combined its opposition role with a constructive participation…
ARF-D Member of Parliament Artsvik Minasyan stated that ARF-D is examining the legal aspect of an appeal to the Constitutional Court after the negative outcome of the motion of no confidence against the government that the ARF-D moved yesterday. He said that the ARF-D wants to appeal until the end of this year. Minasyan also…
Www.1in.am reports that ARF-D Member of Parliament Lilit Galstyan stated that even if some reforms have been made still the bill titled “On Amending the Law on the Examination of the Influence on the Environment” is in violation of the 1998 Aarhus Convention, depriving the people of the rights regarding access to information, public participation…
ARF-D Supreme Council’s Chairman Armen Rustamyan told Zhoghovurd newspaper that it seems former President Levon Ter-Petrosyan’s Armenian National Congress (ANC) Party is making steps closer to the ARF-D positions. The hasty demand for the President’s resignation and the calls for special elections about which the ARF-D was saying that it is irrelevant whether the rulling…
ARF-D Member of Parliament Artsvik Minasyan commenting on the economical seminar of Armenia’s Republican Party said to www.emedia.am that the country’s exporting strategy won’t contribute in the development of Armenia’s economy even in its best case scenario which was presented in the seminar. In his most optimistic forecast, Minasyan said that 5.000-5.500 jobs will be…
ARF-D Member of Parliament Ara Nranyan believes that states are not build on populism. “You have to be firm and consistent. If we declare that we want to take the road that leads to integration in the European Institutions then we have to apply the law” he argued. Nranyan stressed that officials in high places,…
In the course of the Parliament’s extraordinary session’s discussions concerning the Law on Political Parties, ARF-D Member of Parliament Artsvik Minasyan argued that while the law prohibits state-persons who are simultaneously political parties’ members from taking advantage of their office in favor of their party still this norm is violated on a daily basis. Minasyan…
