YEREVAN —The joint statement on the Mountainous-Karabakh conflict issued by presidents Obama, Sarkozy and Medvedev in Deauville, France last month is not in beneficial for Armenia, said Armenian Revolutionary Federation-Dashnaktsutyun parliamentary faction chairman Vahan Hovhannesyan at a press briefing Monday. He added that it was impossible to make prediction on the outcome of scheduled talks…
The Armenian Revolutionary Federation-Dashnaktsutyun demanded the resignation of Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan and his coalition cabinet, over its failed socio-economic policies and inability to curb inflation and emigration. During a meeting in the National Assembly on Wednesday, the Dashnaktsutyun’s parliamentary faction criticized the government. It also tried unsuccessfully to get the legislative body support a…
The Armenian Parliament on Tuesday voted 76-12 to adopt in the second reading a package of electoral reforms, with the “nay” votes coming from the ARF-Dashnaktsutyun party’s faction. The other opposition faction, Heritage, opted out of the vote. In all, 90 amendments have been introduced into the law regulating the conduct of elections, among them…
YEREVAN — On May 20-22, 2011 the Hrayr Maroukhian Foundation with the support of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation organized a three-day seminar in the Armenian resort town of Dilijan for young Armenian political leaders. Twenty members of the Armenian Youth Federation and the Nikol Aghbalyan Student’s Union participated in the training conducted by Bjӧrn Kulp…
Socialist International Vice President and Director of the Hrayr Maroukhian Foundation Maria Titizian took part in a National Conference on Women on May 18-19 organized by the National Democratic Institute (NDI) and USAID, with support from the British Embassy and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP). The conference, “Supporting Women’s Political Participation in Armenia: A…
Informal Comments on Proposals of the Parliamentary Opposition of Armenia (Armenian Revolutionary Federation and Heritage Factions) Prepared by the Venice Commission Secretariat Based on comments by Ms Maria Teresa Mauro (Expert, Italy) Mr Kåre Vollan (Expert, Norway)* (*) On May 5 the National Assembly Standing Committee on State and Legal Affairs initiated parliamentary hearings to…
BRUSSELS—Armenian Revolutionary Federation-Dashnaktsutyun Bureau member and ARF-D parliamentary bloc chairman Vahan Hovhannesyan was elected a vice-president during the inaugural session of EURONEST Parliamentary Assembly, which brings together elected representatives from the EU Eastern Partnership countries. The EURONEST Parliamentary Assembly was devised to provide a parliamentary dimension to the EU’s eastern partnership, as part of the…
The Socialist International Committee for the CIS, the Caucasus and the Black Sea convened in Almaty, Kazakhstan on 2-3 May 2011, at the first ever meeting of the Committee to be held in Central Asia. Discussions centred upon democracy in the region, with the Committee also comprehensively expressing its full support for the Nationwide Social…
On April 22, 2011, an ARF delegation headed by Hagop Der Khatchadourian, ARF Bureau member and chairman of the Armenian Cause Central Council, met with a Fatah party delegation headed by Dr. Nabeel A. Shaath, a member of the Central Committee of Fatah and its Commissioner of International Relations, and a member of the Palestinian…
On the initiative of the NA Standing Committee on Defense, National Security and Internal Affairs parliamentary hearings on the theme “The Reforms in RA Police Sphere” were held, where NA deputies, representatives of police, national security, prosecutor’s office, human rights protection and other NGOs and mass media took part. In his opening speech the Chairman…
