Vahan Hovhanessian, leader of the ARF-D Parliamentary Faction comments on the visit of Mevlut Cavusoglu, the president of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) to Armenia “Cavusoglu came and went and now let’s try to evaluate what happened. As you know, we declined to meet with him and our position and substantiation…
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ARF member first runner-up
During the bi-election for the Armenian National Assembly’s No. 63 riding in Vanadzor, ARF member Davit Lokyan was the first runner-up trailing by some 650 votes behind the unaffiliated winner, Edig Mardirosyan. Lokian is the director of the Intellectual Enterprise and author of two reconstruction projects in the earthquake stricken city , funded by Eurasia…
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Gulbenkian Foundation grants US$25,000 to ARF-D Archives Institute
MONTEBELLO, CA (USA) — The Armenian section of the Galouste Gulbenkian Foundation, once again, has provided a grant of US$25,000 to the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun) Archives Institute for digitizing the vast archives of the organization. Institute Executive Director, Vatche Proodian, expressed his gratitude to the Foundation for the response to the grant request.
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Meetings of the Polish-Armenian Parliamentary Friendship Group in the National Assembly
On May 12 the Head of the Polish-Armenian Parliamentary Friendship Group of the Republic of Poland led by the Senator Lukasz Abgarowicz arrived in Armenia on a three-day official visit. On the same day the members of the Polish-Armenian Parliamentary Friendship Group in the National Assembly laid flowers at the memorial perpetuating the memory of…
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ARF-D will boycott Cavusoglu Meetings
The Armenian Revolutionary Federation-Dashnaktsutyun announced Tuesday that it will boycott all meetings and events related to Wedenesday’s visit by Mevlut Cavusoglu, the president of the Parliamentary Assembly of Council of Europe, citing the leader’s expressed refusal to visit the Genocide Memorial Monument. “Our parliamentary faction has learned that Mevlüt Çavusoglu, President of the Parliamentary Assembly…
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Conference of ARF-D “Hay Daht” committees held in Yerevan and Stepanakert
A conference of the “Hay Daht” (Armenian Cause) committees of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation-Dashnaktsutyun was held May 6-9, 2010, in Yerevan and Stepanakert. The conference kicked off at the Erebouni business center, with the participation of “Hay Daht” committee representatives from throughout the world, as well as representatives of Armenian political parties, NGOs and public…
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ARF Dashnaktsutyun Bureau’s plenary session
In recent days the Bureau of the ARF-Dashnaktsutyun held its regular plenary session. The activities of the past three months were summarized and evaluated. With regard to future activities, the fundamental items on the agenda were the difficult social and economic situation in Armenia, the unresolved issues of the country’s democratization and its ethical atmosphere,…
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Socialist Approaches to Armenia’s Challenges: Global Perspectives and Local Realities
The Armenian Revolutionary Federation-Dashnaktsutyun (Armenian socialist party) held a two-day international conference in Yerevan, on March 25-26, 2010. The conference had two main objectives: first, to discuss socialism today in its ideological and practical aspects; and, second, to consider the social and economic challenges facing Armenia and the adequate socialist responses. To that aim, the…
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ARF-D participates in the conference on social democracy in the South Caucasus
On 26, 27 and 28 March the European Forum, together with the Party of European Socialists (PES) and the Group of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament (S&D) organised in Tbilisi, Georgia, a fact-finding mission and an ensuing conference on social democracy in the South Caucasus. The conference, held on 27 and 28 March,…
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U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee Adopts Armenian Genocide Resolution 23 to 22
Ignoring stern warnings from Ankara, a key committee of the U.S. House of Representatives narrowly approved on March 4 a resolution that recognizes the 1915 mass killings of Armenians in Ottoman Turkey as genocide and urges President Barack Obama to do the same. Turkey condemned the committee vote and recalled its ambassador to Washington “for…
