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…
Views & Interviews
Views & Interviews
Solidarity in Globalization – Reflections on Challenges to the Swedish Model
Presentation by at the Conference “Socialist Approaches to Armenia’s Challenges: Global Perspectives and Local Realities” organized by the ARF-Dashnaktsutyun (Armenian socialist party), Yerevan, March 25 2010 Your Excellencies, Unger, ungerouhiner, Shad ourach yev hebard yem vor Hayasdanoum em tzez hed aysor- genoches yev zavgis badmagan hayrenikoum. It is with great honour and a lot of…
Democracy & Human Rights, Labour & Social Welfare, Views & Interviews
Transition to Democracy: Women in the CIS 15 Years After Beijing
By MARIA TITIZIAN Socialist International Vice President ARF-Dashnaktsutyun (Armenia) Beijing + 15 – What Next? Fifty-Fourth Session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), United Nations, New York, 1 – 12 March 2010 Panel discussion hosted by the Permanent Mission of Greece to the United Nations in cooperation with the Socialist International Women…
Labour & Social Welfare, Views & Interviews
Pension reform in Armenia will further widen the gap between the rich and the poor
ArmInfo. Interview with professor of economics at Ventura College, California, Ara Khanjian Ara Khanjian has represented the ARF-Dashnaktsutyun in the Socialist International Committee on Economic Policy, Labour and National Resources Do you share the concern of Armenian authorities on aging of the population in the next few years, which will challenge the State’s capacity of…
Democracy & Human Rights, Economics & Finance, International Relations, Labour & Social Welfare, Views & Interviews
Strengthening Social Democracy in the Black Sea Region
Maria Titizian Vice President, Socialist International ARF-Dashnaktsutyun, Armenian socialist party IUSY BSAC Leaders’ Conference “Committed to making changes” 4 – 6 December, 2009, Kiev, Ukraine The problem with strengthening social democracy in the region is the deficit or absence of democracy itself primarily in the post-Soviet republics, including some in the Black Sea region. In…
About ARF-D History, Views & Interviews
The ARF-D in the Ottoman Empire: An Interview with Dikran Kaligian
By Khatchig Mouradian The Armenian Weekly November 5, 2009 Dikran Kaligian has taught history at Clark University and Regis, Westfield State, and Wheaton colleges. He is past chairperson of the Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA) Eastern United States and managing editor of the Armenian Review. He received his Ph.D. in history from Boston College.…
Foreign Affairs, Views & Interviews
Opposition’s Case: ARF-D Leader Explains Why Sargsyan Should Not Go to Turkey
By Gayane Abrahamyan ArmeniaNow reporter 14 October 2009 ArmeniaNow.com A chief foreign policy spokesman for the major party opposed to the current deal with Ankara considers President Serzh Sargsyan’s travel to Turkey “a wrong step that is in conflict with his own outlined conditions.” Giro Manoyan, director of the International Secretariat of the Armenian Revolutionary…
Foreign Affairs, Views & Interviews
Perspectives of EU Integration of Armenia and Turkey
Giro Manoyan International Secretariat, ARF-Dashnaktsutyun Bureau International Conference “Armenia-Turkey: Perspectives for the normalization of relations in the framework of EU Integration” 28 September 2008, Yerevan EU integration for Armenia does not have an alternative. Armenia has chosen EU integration as the path to its internal and economic development. Although Armenia has a great deficit regarding…
Armenia-Diaspora, Democracy & Human Rights, Economics & Finance, Views & Interviews
Another World is Possible
An Interview with Khatchig Der Ghougassian Another world is possible: One where economics are based on justice, democracy is founded in principle, human rights are cherished and protected, and diversity is shared and celebrated. In an exclusive interview with Haytoug, Khatchik DerGhougassian, a professor of International Relations at the Universidad de San Andrés in Argentina,…
Armenia-Diaspora, Foreign Affairs, Views & Interviews
RESOLUTION of the Pan-Armenian Conference Held in Stepanakert, on July 10-11, 2009
We, the representatives of Armenian communities of 25 countries of the world, having discussed, at a conference organized under the high patronage of the President of NKR, the current issues of utmost importance for the nation and the state, herewith determine: 1) Armenia and the Armenians are at an important and decisive stage. The preservation…
