Is it correct that you promised to give agricultural loans to the residents of the region of Ararat, if you were appointed a minister? In response to a question of www.aravot.am, Sergo Karapetyan, the Minister of Agriculture, assured that it was a slander, “No, there has been no such thing.” We inquired whether he hadn’t …
Monthly Archives: September 2012
By David Ignatius The campaign against Western-backed NGOs is spreading toArmenia, where a former foreign minister is accused of “money laundering” because he accepted contributions from the father of formerU.S.presidential candidate Jon Huntsman to support civil-society projects. The target is Vartan Oskanian, a U.S.-educated Armenian who served as foreign minister from 1998 to 2008 …
As www.aravot.am has already informed, yesterday Elmar Mamedyarov, the Azerbaijani Minister of Foreign Affairs, and Ahmet Davutoğlu, the Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs, made speeches at the annual plenary meeting of the UN General Assembly. Both of them talked about the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict settlement, which should be achieved only in accordance with Azerbaijan’s territorial integrity. …
Sahakyan, a deputy leader of the Republican Party of Armenia (RPA), said about the arrest of Vazgen Khachikyan, a former head of the state social security service, that there were other accused in the case, “There are many other people, the case is not closed.” However, he didn’t go into detail whether other former heads …
The area’s faith community is mourning the loss of the Rev. Bernard A. Guekguezian, pastor emeritus of First Armenian Presbyterian Church near downtown Fresno. He died Sept. 22 at age 85. The Rev. Guekguezian served as pastor of First Armenian Presbyterian Church for 22 years, from 1978 to 2000. The church is California’s oldest Armenian …
The Prosperous Armenia Party (PAP) political council perceives the persecution of Vartan Oskanian as persecution of the party “Such cases have political overtones in our country and are political persecutions,” Garnik Margaryan, a member of the Armenian National Congress (ANC) and the leader of the Motherland and Dignity Party, said about the Armenian Attorney …
Parliamentary immunity is a right thing. No matter how much citizens protest against it, particularly before elections, no matter how much they legitimately claim that semi-criminal businessmen long for entering the parliament to guarantee their impunity, nonetheless, it is a necessary democratic norm. The well-known legal principle applies here – better that ten guilty persons …
On the morning of September 29, Vanush Amiraghyan, the mayor of Noyemberyan, called Karine Azibekyan, the director of the Noyemberyan house of culture, to his office and suggested that she hand in her resignation. He offered K. Azibekyan the job of a librarian in one of the town libraries instead. Karine Azibekyan didn’t hand …
A proposed change to the law in Armenia setting 18 as the minimum age at which women and men can marry has run into opposition from the Yezidi minority. Until now, women have been able to get married at 17, a year earlier than men. The officials behind the proposed change say they want to …
“The impudence was at such a level that a person who was born in 1959 received a Great Patriotic War pension,” after this and other such revelations of the Control Chamber, a struggle against kickbacks commenced in the social protection system. During a conversation with www.aravot.am, Artem Asatryan, the Minister of Labor and Social Affairs, …
