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…
Legislative initiatives According to the Parliament Monitoring website, during the autumn session of the Armenian parliament, the author of most of the sixty proposals was the ARF-Dashnaktsutyun faction. 42 of these proposals had been drafted as bills, of which nine have been adopted as laws, one has been refused. Of the 32 remaining bills, the…
YEREVAN – Ara Nranyan, a parliament member from the Armenian Revolutionary Federation-Dashnaktsutyun party, questioned today the wisdom of a government-designed bill that would vest the government with authority to interfere and set price ceilings for a number of foods if they grow by 30 and more percent within one month, saying the authorities should instead…
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…
Statement by the National Assembly’s ARF-Dashnaktsutyun faction: “The NA ARF faction expresses its indignation about the clash that took place in front of the government building on the morning of March 3. “The police used force and impeded citizens’ peaceful demonstration aimed at protecting their rights. “Citizens were injured and MPs with immunity were assaulted.…
In studying the 2011 program of action of the Armenian State Commission for Protection of Economic Competition, one can see high market concentration, particularly 100% concentration in the sugar market. However, the Armenian Constitution and laws prohibit monopolies, Artsvik Minasyan, a member of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation-Dashnaksutyun (ARF-D) faction, stated in Parliament. The aforesaid proves…
On Friday, 18 February 2011, the ARF-Dashnaktsutyun launched the “Public movement for the defense of electoral right” at a gathering in Yerevan. Speaking at the event were Armen Rustamyan, chairman of the ARF-Dashnaktsutyun Supreme Council of Armenia, Vahan Hovhannesyan, ARF-Dashnaktsutyun Bureau member and leader of the ARF-D parliamentary faction, as well as representatives of several…
Member of the parliamentary faction of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation-Dashnaktsutyun, economist Ara Nranyan said at a press conference Wednesday that the economic polices implemented by the Government of Armenia in recent months not only do not suppress inflation and crisis, but rather by themselves “create crisis and inflation.” “The government raises the value of money,…
