MUSKOKA, Canada—On June 26, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, U.S. President Barack Obama, and French President Nicolas Sarkozy issued the following statement on Karabagh from the G8 Summit: We, the Presidents of the OSCE Minsk Group’s Co-Chair countries, France, the Russian Federation, and the United States of America, reaffirm our commitment to support the leaders of…
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev’s refusal to take part in the International Economic Forum following the Sargsyan-Medvedev-Aliyev meeting in Saint Petersburg was a specific way to express discontent with the Mountainous-Karabakh peace process, Giro Manoyan, ARF-D International Secretary, told NEWS.am, commenting on the Azerbaijani reconnaissance detachment’s intrusion in Karabakh on June 18. According to him, Azerbaijan’s…
NEW YORK–The Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF-Dashnaktsutyun) participated in the Socialist International (SI) Council meeting held at the United Nations headquarters in New York, on June 21 and 22. In addition to ARF Bureau member Mario Nalbandian (Nalpatian) and SI vice-president Maria Titizian, the ARF delegation included four ARF Eastern U.S. representatives. Also in attendance were…
I welcome all of you in Yerevan; to the motherland of all Armenians and the capital city of Armenia, Yerevan. For us it is a great honor and privilege to welcome all of you here. As members of the same large ideological family, we have much to do in our region and I am convinced…
ARF-D Political Affiars Director Giro Manoyan explains YEREVAN (ArmInfo)–As Russian and Turkish leaders express their readiness to develop a strategic partnership, Armenian leaders are considering what the implications of such a partnership would mean to the Republic of Armenia and the Republic of Nagorno Karabakh. ARF Bureau Political Affairs Director Giro Manoyan says Russia is…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
The National Assembly of Armenia by emergency procedure passed draft amendments to the RA Law on International Treaties (with an overwhelming majority (70/4) of votes) which many see as Armenia’s mapped-out exit strategy from the Armenian-Turkish protocol process. The adoption of this draft is mainly connected with the Zurich protocols on the establishment of diplomatic…
