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 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…
The presentation of the book “Armenian-Turkish Relations: Problems and Perspectives” was held in the National Assembly. Armen Rustamyan, Chairman of the ARF-D Supreme Council of Armenia and Chairman of the NA Standing Committee on Foreign Relations, had an opening speech saying that the collection is the summing up of the stenography of the parliamentary hearings,…
Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe 2011 ORDINARY SESSION (Second part) REPORT Fourteenth sitting Wednesday 13 April 2011 at 10 a.m. The honouring of obligations and commitments by Georgia Verbatim record of the speech delivered by Mr Armen RUSTAMYAN (Armenia, Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee of the National Assembly of Armenian and Chairman…
Socialist International Presidium meeting Athens, Greece, 19 March 2011 The Presidium of the Socialist International is today gathered in Athens, in the foothills of the Acropolis, at a crucial moment for democrats and the Arab world, where citizens have been mobilising for democracy, rights and freedoms. From Greece, the cradle of democracy and the land…
At a meeting in Moscow Wednesday Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan gave a replica copy of the infamous Moscow Treaty, signed 90 years ago to the day, to Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. “The document is a turning point in our history. Our eastern borders were recognized under the Moscow agreement,” Erdogan later told a…
The 90th anniversary of the signing of the notorious treaty between the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic and the Government of the Turkish Grand National Assembly on March 16, 1921, is being marked. The parties of this treaty, in violation of the basic principles and norms of international law, without the participation and consent of…
YEREVAN (ARF-D Press Office, March 14, 2011) – On March 10, Mr Vahan Hovhannesyan, ARF-Dashnaktsutyun Bureau member and leader of the ARF-D parliamentary faction, received an invitation to participate in the Wilton Park Conference on “Turkey’s policies for engagement in the contemporary world.” The March 24-27 conference, Wilton Park’s third in Turkey, will take place…
Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Grigory Karasin discussed the political situation in Armenia with leaders of the political parties represented in parliament during a visit to Yerevan this week. The Deputy Foreign Minister met with members of the ARF-Dashnaktsutyun parliamentary faction. The sidies discussed the settlement of the Mountainous (Nagorno) Karabakh conflict and Armenian-Russian relations. Touching…
