The U.S. State Department, in its recently released annual report on human rights practices, has documented human rights and civil liberties violations by the Armenian government. The document, Armenian Human Rights Practices, 1995, released on March 6th, is part of the State Department’s yearly evaluation of the human rights situation in countries throughout the world.…
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ARF leader discusses party agenda
Following its first press conference in January 1996, several interviews have been granted by the ARF-Dashnaktsutyun Supreme Council of Armenia. We present excerpts from two interviews conducted by Anna Israelyan (a Radio Liberty correspondent in Armenia) and by Narineh Dilbaryan (a reporter of the Lragir Or daily of Yerevan), with ARF-Dashnaktsutyun Supreme Council of Armenia…
International Relations, Views & Interviews
The ARF and the SI
Editorial ARF News March-April 1996, Volume 1.2(2) The Armenian Revolutionary Federation-Dashnaktsutyun, founded in 1890, established contacts with the Socialist International in 1896, and as the representative of Armenian Socialism, became full member of the Socialist International in 1907 at its 7th Congress in Stuttgart. After the First World War and the end of the Armenian…
Foreign Affairs, National Security & Defense, Views & Interviews
Statement on the Russian State Duma’s denouncation of the Belovezhskaya Agreement
Conscious of the need for integration in CIS circles and the importance of Armenian-Russian political cooperation, the ARF-Dashnaktsutyun Supreme Council of Armenia is at the same time concerned about actions, undertaken with the Russian Federation presidential elections in mind, which question Armenia’s independence and self-government. We are also particularly concerned about attempts through pressure from…
National Security & Defense, Views & Interviews
Statement on the 8th anniversary of the Karabakh Movement
Today the Artsakh liberation movement entered its ninth year. Eight years ago, the Armenian population of Artsakh stood up in defense of its right to self determination and laid the foundations for the independent Mountainous (Nagorno) Karabakh Republic. (…) Today, taking advantage of the opportunity provided by the cease-fire, all of us, the entire nation,…
In the Press, Views & Interviews
In Response to “Le Monde diplomatique”
The “Le Monde diplomatique” in its January 1996 issue published an article titled “Neither peace nor war in Nagorno-Karabagh”, signed by Jean Gueyras. The ARF Central Committee of France has sent a letter to the magazine, because the ARF has been directly defamed by the journalist. In its letter, the ARF Central Committee states: Our…
