A senior Armenian lawmaker representing the ruling party has cautioned against setting deadlines for the ratification of normalization agreements with Turkey despite what now appears a stalling process.
President Serzh Sarkisian’s former ally sees ‘losses’ for Armenia as he claims the fence-mending agreements signed with Turkey effectively reflect two of Ankara’s three preconditions set forth since 1993.
Armenia’s leadership has toughened its conciliatory policy on Turkey under pressure from the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun), a leader of the nationalist opposition party claimed on Tuesday.
The Armenian police on Friday reported a 40 percent surge in the number of corruption-related prosecutions carried out last year and pledged to further toughen their declared fight against graft.
Leaders of the two opposition parties represented in Armenia’s parliament exchanged on Monday bitter recriminations stemming from a controversial change in the composition of the Armenian delegation in the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE).
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has met with her counterparts from Armenia and Turkey to discuss an intensifying diplomatic dispute that has raised an additional obstacle to the normalization of Turkish-Armenian relations.
Former President Robert Kocharian visited Iran this week in a private capacity even though he was invited by the Iranian government, official Yerevan said on Friday.
President Serzh Sarkisian told the Armenian parliament’s Audit Chamber on Friday to press harder for the prosecution of state officials suspected of embezzling public funds and engaging in other corrupt practices.
Former President Robert Kocharian has visited Iran and reaffirmed Armenia’s commitment to further deepen relations with the Islamic Republic, it emerged on Thursday.
Nikol Pashinian, a prominent opposition figure and newspaper editor, was sentenced on Tuesday to seven years in prison on what he and his supporters call trumped-up charges stemming from the 2008 post-election unrest in Yerevan.
The January 10 parliamentary election in Yerevan exposed a glaring decline in the popularity of the main opposition Armenian National Congress (HAK), the ruling Republican Party (HHK) claimed on Friday.
The Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun) will strive to depose President Serzh Sarkisian if his fence-mending agreements with Turkey are unconditionally ratified by Armenia’s parliament, a leader of the nationalist opposition party said on Wednesday.
The Constitutional Court upheld on Tuesday the legality of Armenia’s controversial normalization agreements with Turkey amid continuing protests staged by nationalist groups opposed to the deal. (UPDATED)
The Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun) rallied more than a thousand supporters in Yerevan on Monday to demand that Armenia’s Constitutional Court invalidate the fence-mending agreements with Turkey.
The opposition Armenian National Congress (HAK) condemned on Wednesday prosecutors for demanding an eight-year prison sentence for Nikol Pashinian, one of its leaders standing on trial on charges stemming from last year’s post-election unrest.
The Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) confirmed on Tuesday that its two senior members monitoring the political situation in Armenia have criticized the results of an Armenian parliamentary inquiry into last year’s deadly post-election violence in Yerevan.
Council of Europe officials monitoring the political situation in Armenia have criticized an Armenian parliamentary report that defended the use of deadly force against opposition protesters after last year’s disputed presidential election, a senior lawmaker in Yerevan said on Monday.
The Council of Europe has become more indifferent to human rights abuses in Armenia lately because of President Serzh Sarkisian’s Western-backed policies on Turkey and the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, the opposition Armenian National Congress (HAK) said on Friday.
An opposition party affiliated with the Armenian National Congress (HAK) has been effectively split by a bitter leadership battle between two rival factions keen to oust each other from the party ranks.
The Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun) will launch early next month a new campaign of street protests aimed at scuttling the implementation of the recently signed Turkish-Armenian agreements, a leader of the opposition party said on Monday.
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