The leadership of the Council of Europe’s Parliamentary Assembly called on Armenia and Azerbaijan to step up their efforts to settle the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict at a meeting held in Yerevan on Friday.
Syria’s embattled President Bashar al-Assad still enjoys considerable popular support and should therefore not be excluded from international efforts to end the bloody conflict in his country, Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian said on Friday.
Armenia’s state utility regulators have revealed the scale of natural gas and electricity price rises that will come into effect soon because of the increased cost of gas imported from Russia.
The cost of travelling by public transport in Armenia could also rise because soon of the sharp increase in the price of natural gas imported from Russia, Transport and Communications Minister Gagik Beglarian said on Wednesday.
In an about-face condemned by the opposition, the ruling Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) blocked on Monday the launch a new parliamentary inquiry into the 2008 deadly post-election violence in Yerevan.
A key ally of opposition leader Levon Ter-Petrosian on Thursday publicly disagreed with his controversial strategy of cooperation with Gagik Tsarukian’s Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK), dismissing its opposition credentials.
Levon Ter-Petrosian’s Armenian National Congress (HAK) said on Wednesday that it continues to regard the Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK) as an opposition force despite statements to the contrary made by BHK leader Gagik Tsarukian.
Gagik Tsarukian’s Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK) said on Monday that it will take up its seats in Yerevan’s newly elected municipal council despite its criticism of the conduct of the May 5 elections in the capital.
Amid the continuing silence maintained by his Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK) former Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian on Wednesday condemned as “shameful” the conduct of the weekend municipal elections in Yerevan.
The ruling Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) insisted on Monday that it has received a popular mandate to govern Yerevan for another four years amid allegations of vote rigging made by the country’s main established opposition forces.
Tens of thousands of people marched to a hilltop memorial in Yerevan on Wednesday in an annual remembrance of some 1.5 million Armenians killed in Ottoman Turkey during World War I in what many historians consider genocide.
Former Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian on Tuesday urged the Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK), of which he is a senior member, to officially declare itself an opposition political force.
Opposition parties should cut a power-sharing deal in Yerevan if they succeed in stripping the ruling Republican Party (HHK) of its majority in the municipal council, a deputy chairman of Levon Ter-Petrosian’s Armenian National Congress (HAK) said on Thursday.
The ruling Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) criticized its political opponents on Wednesday for viewing the upcoming municipal elections in Yerevan as an opportunity to weaken its grip on power in the country.
A close associate of Raffi Hovannisian rounded on former President Levon Ter-Petrosian on Tuesday for dismissing as unserious anti-government protests held by the fellow opposition leader after the recent presidential election.
Armen Rustamian, a leader of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun), on Friday criticized fellow opposition leader Raffi Hovannisian for holding a demonstration in Yerevan that ended in clashes with riot police earlier this week.
Riot police should have acted more forcefully against thousands of opposition supporters that demonstrated against President Serzh Sarkisian’s second inauguration, a deputy chairman of the ruling Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) said on Wednesday.
President Serzh Sarkisian described ensuring faster economic development and reducing poverty in Armenia as his top priority for the next five years on Tuesday as he was sworn in for a second term more than one month after a disputed presidential election.
A man reportedly suffering from mental illness was shot and wounded by security officers on Friday while attempting to enter the Armenian parliament without authorization.
Armenia’s Constitutional Court on Thursday rejected opposition leader Raffi Hovannisian’s and another candidate’s demands to invalidate the official results of the February 18 presidential election that gave victory to incumbent President Serzh Sarkisian.
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