YEREVAN – ARF-Dashnaktsutyun Bureau member Massis Baghdasaryan told the Azg daily newspaper that the recent publication of the party’s World Congress decisions in the ruling Armenian National Movement publication Haik are inaccurately presented as “the ARF’s secret and underground policies.” Baghdasaryan told Azg that what Haik has maliciously categorized as a secret document for the…
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News, Organizational Matters, Policy
ARF is ready for dialogue
In a recent interview with Radio Liberty, ARF-Dashnaktsutyun Supreme Council of Armenia member Levon Mkrtchyan stated, that “the party is truly ready to enter into a dialogue.” Mkrtchyan did qualify his statement, however, by saying, that “the policies currently being implemented by the authorities, in my opinion, can be called rejection through delay tactics. ”…
Policy, Views & Interviews
ARF, parties issue joint declaration
The Scientific-Industrial and Civic Union of Armenia, the Democratic Party of Armenia, and the Armenian Revolutionary Federation-Dashnaktsutyun issued a joint declaration, on May 13, 1996, on efforts to coordinate their activities within Armenia’s sociopolitical reality. The joint declaration follows consultations among Armenia’s democratic opposition parties, mainly focusing on discussion of issues relating to the forthcoming…
Views & Interviews
Committee to Protect Journalists on the ban of ARF press in Armenia
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) recently released a report, Attacks on the Press in 1995, documenting attacks on the media and press freedom in countries around the world. The survey included the following analysis regarding Armenia: Armenia’s independence from the Soviet Union in September 1991 gave rise to the first independent media in the…
Views & Interviews
U.S. State Department assessment: Suspension of the ARF marked a “noticeable decline in Armenia’s observance of human rights”
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.…
In the Press, News, Organizational Matters, Policy, Views & Interviews
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…
News, Policy
Academicians discuss ARF’s role in Armenia
YEREVAN – “Nothing will be complete without the complete participation of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation-Dashnaktsutyun in our society, since it is a national force and it belongs to the Armenian people”, stated one academician taking part in a seminar organized by the ARF Supreme Council of Armenia, at the American University of Armenia, on March…
Foreign Affairs, In the Press, News
“ARF must be included in Armenia’s delegation to the Council of Europe”
On January 26, 1996, the Council of Europe decision to grant Armenia observer status came in the wake of Russian admittance as a full-fledged member into the same body. Yet the approval of Armenia’s status took four years of arduous evaluation and analysis by the Council, which included a fact-finding mission to Armenia by an…
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…
News
ARFD-Armenia Outlines Policies and Action Plan
During a press conference, in Yerevan, on January 21, 1996, the newly created body responsible for administering the activities of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation-Dashnaktsutyun in Armenia outlined the party’s policies and programs and discussed the course of their activities. The three-person body is composed of Levon Mkrtchyan, lecturer at the History Department of the Yerevan…
