YEREVAN (ARF Press Office)—Armenian Revolutionary Federation-Dashnaktsutyun parliamentary faction leader and ARF-D Bureau member Vahan Hovhannesyan, during the meeting of the Bureau of the Parliamentary Assembly of the EU “Eastern Partnership” (Euronest) on January 25 and 26 presented his proposal for the advancement of the European Union’s Eastern Partnership initiative. The Euronest Parliamentary Assembly is the…
PARIS (ARF Press Office)—Representatives of Europe’s “Hai Tad” Committees came together at the Armenian Cultural House in Paris on November 13 for a pan-European Hai Dat Conference to address the EU’s approach to Armenia, Nagorno-Karabakh, the Caucasus, Genocide denial, and Turkey. Attending the conference were delegates from the Armenian National Committee, the Defense Committee of…
The Socialist International Council, meeting in Paris, adopted a resolution on the Mountainous (Nagorno) Karabakh issue, committing itself to continue its initiative for peace, aimed at building dialogue and confidence both within the International and and on the wider political stage. The SI Council qualified as “extremely positive step” its two meetings held in Yerevan…
The International Human Rights Law Association (IHRLA) at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) hosted a conference entitled, “Genocide and Then What? The Law, Ethics, and Politics of Making Amends” on Saturday, October 23, 2010 at UCLA’s Dodd Hall. The conference featured a soon to be released report which explores the legal, ethical, and…
On October 28, a delegation of Members of the European Parliament arrived in Stepanakert, the capital city of the Mountainous Karabakh (Artsakh) Republic (MKR) as part of their visit to Armenia and MKR from October 27-31. The European delegation was composed of Damien Abad (European Peoples’ Party) and Michele Rivasii (Group of the Greens/European Free…
In the Armenian parliament, the ARF Dashnaktsutyun put into circulation a draft statement on the creation of Armenia-Mountainous Karabakh Republic military-strategic alliance, leader of the of ARF-D parliamentary group Vahan Hovhannesyan told a press briefing at the Armenian National Assembly. “Though the draft statement has been positively estimated by a relevant committee, it is not…
President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev, President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan, and President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev discussed future possibilities for reaching a settlement of the Mountainous (Nagorno) Karabakh conflict. At the talks, in Astrakhan, the parties approved a joint statement. The document, which is humanitarian in purpose, has great importance for resolving the…
ARF-D parliamentarian and chair of the ARF-D Supreme Council Armen Rustamyan said that no breakthrough in the Karabakh conflict is possible because of Azerbaijan’s hard line policies. “Azerbaijan has expressed no other position; it has failed to embrace the idea that the issue should primarily be resolved by recognizing Karabakh’s status and ensuring its people’s…
The concept of democracy, similar to socialism, justice, freedom, nationism1, culture and many other concepts, in essence, is a universal idea and is characterized by a universal or global definition. However, in terms of its form, realization and application—and similar to the other noted concepts—has a national framework and a dependence on local conditions. According…
The Bureau of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation-Dashnaktsutyun issued a communiqué Tuesday urging all Armenians to take part in the upcoming (U.S.) Thanksgiving Day Armenia Fund Telethon. Below is the translated text of the communiqué: The fundraising activities of the Hayastan All Armenia Fund have already begun and will conclude with the annual Armenia Fund Telethon,…
