Delegation of New South Wales politicians visit Armenia with ANC Australia (armenia.com.au) A delegation of seven politicians from Australia’s largest state of New South Wales (NSW) have paid their respects at Yerevan’s Armenian Genocide monument (Dzidzernagapert), met with His Holiness Karekin II (Catholicos of All Armenians) and President Serzh Sargsyan on an historic visit to…
(asbarez.com) —The closure of roads to and from Aleppo is threatening severe shortages of supplies and worsening living conditions in this highly-Armenian-populated city as the Syrian crisis continues to worsen. Reports indicate that constant security concerns in Aleppo have been compounded in recent days by the closure of all access routes to and from the…
The European Parliament’s EU-Armenia Friendship Group is making its first visit to Armenia this week. The delegation is headed by the President of the group, Dr. Eleni Theocharous (Cyprus) and comprised of MEPs Frank Engel, Vice-President of the group (Luxembourg), Ewald Stadler (Austria), Kyriakos Triandafyllides (Cyprus), France-Armenia Parliamentary Friendship Group Vice-President Guy Teissier, France-Armenia Parliamentary Friendship Group…
(akhaltskha.net, March 18) – The decision of Akhalkalak Regional Assembly to apply to Georgia’s Parliament for the latter to ratify the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages and therefore give the status of a regional language to Armenian has caused much noise in that country. Yesterday in reference to this matter, President Saakashvili stated…
Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee Headlines Congressional Tribute to 25 Years of Liberty (armenianweekly.com, WASHINGTON)—The Chairman of the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee, Ed Royce (R-Calif.), joined with fellow members of the Congressional Armenian Caucus and the visiting Minister of Youth and Culture from the Republic of Nagorno Karabakh, Narine Aghabalyan, in a…
Press Release On March 12, 2013 members of the Armenian Community of Georgia Executive Body had a meeting with state Minister of Georgia for Reintegration, Paata Zakareishvili. During the meeting, issues that concern Georgian Armenians were presented and ways to solve complex situations were elaborated. Among them were the participation of Georgian citizens of Armenian…
The Armenian Community of Georgia welcomes Georgian MP Ruslan Poghosian’s Mard 6, statement made in the Parliament urging President Saakashvili to show restraint and correctness in connection to his recent statements about the state’s citizens of Armenian origin and about the Samtskhe-Javakheti region. According to Georgia’s Constitution, which is the main law of the state,…
Press Release On March 4, 2013 a meeting between a delegation of the Armenian Community of Georgia Executive Body and the “Georgian Dream-Democratic Georgia” ruling coalition’s political secretary Sozar Subari, took place. Member of the Georgian Parliament, Ruslan Poghosian and party’s representatives were also attending the meeting. The main purpose of the meeting was to…
Conference on evaluation of democracy in Armenia and Lithuania On February 26, the Armenia-Lithuania Parliamentary Friendship Group hosted a conference titled “25 years of democracy in Armenia and Lithuania. A glance to a not far away past” in the Seimas (Lithuanian Parliament) building. Participating in the conference was ARF-D Parliamentary Faction member, Vahan Hovhannesyan, Mountainous…
Announcement Taking under consideration the week-old developments in the region of Samtskhe-Javakhk, those being the separate rallies organized by the activists of the ruling “Georgian Dream” coalition and by Akhalkalak region officials supporting the “United National Movement”, the Samtskhe-Javakhk Armenian NGOs Coordinating Council urges the sides to give priority to the solution of a series…
