At the conclusion on Sunday, April 20, of the ARF-D Armenia Regional meeting, known as the ARF-D Supreme Assembly, a new ARF-D Supreme Council of Armenia was elected. The Assembly, which kicked off on Friday in Aghveran, elected a new body, which will formulate and carry out the party’s policies in Armenia for the upcoming…
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ARF-D Will Not Take Part in New Government
(April 18) YEREVAN—The Armenian Revolutionary Federation-Dashnaktsutyun (ARF-D) will not take part in the government that is being formed after the appointment by President Serzh Sargsyan of Hovik Abrahamyan as prime minister. This decision was announced in a statement issued by the ARF-D Supreme Council of Armenia, ahead of its biennial regional meeting, known as the…
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ARF-D Among Parties Consulting with RoA President
(asbarez.com) YEREVAN — A delegation of Armenian Revolutionary Federation-Dashnaktsutyun (ARF-D) leaders on Thursday met with President Serzh Sargsyan, as part of series of consultations the president held with the parties represented in the National Assembly. Heading the ARF-D delegation was its Bureau chairman Hrant Margaryan and leaders of the party’s parliamentary bloc Armen Rustamyan and…
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Armenian Pension Reform Overturned By Constitutional Court
(azatutyun.am RFE/RL) in a surprise verdict, Armenia’s Constitutional Court overturned on Wednesday a controversial reform of the national pension system that has triggered angry street protests by young workers affected by it. Ruling on a joint appeal lodged by leading Armenian opposition parties, the court said that the key provisions of a corresponding government-drafted law…
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Armenia’s Opposition Parties Plan Unified Protests
(asbarez.com) YEREVAN (RFE/RL)—Armenia’s four main political parties challenging President Serzh Sarkisian agreed on Tuesday to stage joint rallies later this month in support of a vote of no confidence in the government sought by them in parliament. Gagik Tsarukian’s Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK) and the three established opposition groups represented in the National Assembly will…
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Minasyan Comments on Ruling Coalition’s Change of Mind on Gas Accord Committee
(arminfo.am) – ARFD Party Faction in the Armenian Parliament supports the ruling coalition’s initiative to set up an ad hoc committee to study gas problems, ARFD representative Artsvik Minasyan told ArmInfo. He said that the coalition-suggested project resembles the one ARFD submitted yet in 2010 but contains some more issues connected with the latest sale…
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ARF-D Youth and Student Wings Urge Minsk Group To Stop False Parity Policy
Members of the ARF-D “Nikol Aghbalyan” Student Association and the Armenian Youth Federation were gathered near Armenia’s Foreign Ministry today, to protest against the false parity policy in connection to the Azerbaijani aggression, applied by the OSCE Minsk Group which is mandated with resolving the Nagorno Karabakh conflict. The Minsk Group Co-Chairs James Warlick (USA),…
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Parliamentary Factions’ Statement On Accumulative Pension Scheme
(aysor.am) – Four factions of the Armenian parliament – ARFD, Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK), Armenian National Congress (HAK) and Heritage factions have issued a joint statement concerning the law on introduction of the compulsory accumulative pension system. The statement says: “On January 24, 2014 Armenia’s Constitutional Court took a decision to suspend Article 76 and…
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Manukyan Replaces Hovhannisyan In The Parliament
The Chairman of the ARF-D Supreme Body of Armenia, Mikayel Manukyan, will take the place of former Member of Parliament Vahan Hovhannisyan who was recently appointed by President Sargsyan to the post of Ambassador in Germany. The decision was taken at the January 13, 2014 session of the Supreme Body. Mikayel Manukyan was born on…
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“The Agreement Is Not Ratified On The Part Of Armenia”, Four Parliamentary Parties Issue Statement
“The agreement is not ratified on the part of Armenia”, four parliamentary parties issue statement. On December 23, 2013 an extraordinary session of the Parliament was to be convened to vote the agreement signed on December 2, in Yerevan between the governments of Armenia and the Russian Federation concerning the trade of shares to of…
