In a rare joint statement, Armenia’s main pro-government and opposition political parties expressed support for the Armenian military on Tuesday, praising its actions during last week’s deadly fighting with Azerbaijani forces.
Members of Nagorno-Karabakh’s legislature have called for an immediate release of an ethnic Armenian businessman who was arrested in Russia last week on suspicion of having ties with an organized criminal group.
Members of the informal minority coalition in the Armenian parliament intend to contest the constitutionality of the amended law on funded pensions portions of which were already recognized as unconstitutional earlier this year.
An independent newspaper and an online news service have refused to comply with a court ruling ordering them to disclose the sources of their recent reports that accused a senior Armenian police officer of violent assault.
Utility regulators formally approved on Tuesday a 10 percent increase in the price of electricity supplied to Armenian households, ignoring protests from the country’s leading opposition groups and angry demonstrators.
Armenia’s four leading political parties challenging President Serzh Sarkisian demanded on Wednesday that regulatory authorities abandon plans to increase the price of electricity for households by 10 percent.
Reversing its own decision made a month ago, the Armenian government moved on Tuesday to again make Armenia’s ongoing transition to a new and unpopular pension system mandatory for workers aged 40 and younger.
The Armenian authorities will seriously consider a list of demands issued by the country’s four main opposition parties, a leading member of President Serzh Sarkisian’s Republican Party (HHK) said on Friday.
It remained unclear on Friday whether Armenia’s political leadership will accept a last-minute condition for joining the Russian-led Eurasian Economic Union demanded by Azerbaijan and publicly backed by Kazakhstan.
Armenia did not recognize Crimea’s secession from Ukraine when it voted against a pro-Ukrainian resolution that was adopted by the UN General Assembly in March, a senior official insisted on Thursday.
In a vote of confidence boycotted by its opposition factions, the Armenian government approved on Thursday a three-year plan of actions submitted by the recently appointed Prime Minister Hovik Abrahamian and his cabinet.
In what it portrayed as a concession to the opposition, the Armenian government pushed through the parliament on Tuesday a bill allowing workers not to be covered by its unpopular reform of the national pension system.
Prime Minister Hovik Abrahamian promised on Friday that his newly formed government will act fast to improve Armenia’s business environment with measures hurting his wealthy cronies and other entrepreneurs close to the ruling elite.
Opposition leaders accused the Armenian government on Tuesday of backtracking on its pledge to stop enforcing an unpopular pension reform that was effectively overturned by the Constitutional Court almost a month ago.
Prime Minister Hovik Abrahamian made a surprise appearance on Friday at a meeting of the parliamentary leaders of Armenia’s main opposition parties to again discuss with them uncertainty surrounding the government’s controversial pension reform.
Prime Minister Abrahamian announced on Wednesday a “de facto suspension” of the ongoing reform of Armenia’s national pension system that has met with fierce resistance from many workers covered by it.
Prime Minister Hovik Abrahamian met with representatives of the opposition minority in Armenia’s parliament on Tuesday to discuss the future of the controversial pension reform initiated by his predecessor.
The four main political parties challenging Armenia’s leadership said on Wednesday that they will continue their joint activities after the unexpected resignation of Prime Minister Tigran Sarkisian and the upcoming formation of a new government.
The Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun) stands ready, in principle, to join Armenia’s new government that will be formed by Prime Minister Hovik Abrahamian in the next three weeks, a leader of the opposition party said on Tuesday.
President Serzh Sarkisian announced on Sunday his decision to appoint the influential parliament speaker Hovik Abrahamian as Armenia’s new prime minister. He acknowledged that he had serious misgivings about Abrahamian’s candidacy. (UPDATED)
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