Western monitors representing the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe reaffirmed on Tuesday their cautious assessment of Armenia’s recent parliamentary elections, praising the election campaign but criticizing voting in a “considerable” number of polling stations.
Opposition leader Levon Ter-Petrosian on Tuesday warned Gagik Tsarukian’s Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK) not to bow to what he described as government pressure and again stressed the importance of cooperating with the country’s second largest parliamentary force.
Armenia’s exports have continued to grow strongly this year despite unexpected losses posted by the export-oriented domestic mining industry, according to official statistics.
Gagik Beglarian, a controversial former mayor of Yerevan, has been reappointed to Armenia’s government as minister of transport and communications more than 18 months after being forced to resign because of reportedly violent conduct.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton praised Armenia’s recent parliamentary elections and reaffirmed Washington’s strong support for an unconditional normalization of Turkish-Armenian relations as she ended a one-day visit to Yerevan late on Monday.
After years of delay, Armenia and Iran will finally start building this August a major hydroelectric plant on a fast-flowing river marking their border, officials said on Monday.
After months of relative stability Armenia’s national currency, the dram, has resumed its steady depreciation against the U.S. dollar, losing almost 4 percent of its nominal value since the beginning of this month.
High-ranking representatives of Azerbaijan’s ruling party have blamed Armenia and the worldwide “Armenian lobby” for their country’s mounting tensions with Iran that led Tehran to withdraw its ambassador from Baku on Tuesday.
The opposition Armenian National Congress (HAK) on Tuesday rejected official vote results as fraudulent but said it will take up seats in the new National Assembly and fight against President Serzh Sarkisian “on all fronts.”
International observers gave a mixed assessment of Armenia’s parliamentary elections on Monday, praising the pre-election environment in the country but reporting irregularities in a “significant number” of polling stations on voting day.
Preliminary official results of Armenia’s parliamentary elections released on Monday morning gave a landslide victory to President Serzh Sarkisian’s Republican Party (HHK) that will enable it tighten control of the National Assembly.
Opposition leader Levon Ter-Petrosian expressed readiness on Thursday to enter into a power-sharing agreement with the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun) and the Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK) after Sunday’s parliamentary elections.
With only three days to go before Armenia’s crucial parliamentary elections, former President Robert Kocharian on Thursday again did not rule his return to the political arena and criticized his successor Serzh Sarkisian’s economic track record.
President Serzh Sarkisian has reportedly added his voice to opposition concerns about vote buying in Armenia and instructed state prosecutors to take “additional measures” against the illegal but endemic practice.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his Socialist challenger Francois Hollande have reaffirmed their pledges to draft a new bill criminalizing denial of the Armenian genocide if they win France’s presidential elections next month.
U.S. President Barack Obama again declined to term the 1915 Armenian massacres in the Ottoman Empire a genocide on Tuesday as he paid tribute to the victims of what he described as “one of the worst atrocities of the 20th century.” (UPDATED)
Opposition leader Levon Ter-Petrosian on Friday criticized the existing international proposals to end the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and said his Armenian National Congress (HAK) will seek “substantial” changes in them.
The head of the United Nations nuclear watchdog inspected the nuclear plant at Metsamor and discussed with Armenian leaders their plans to delay its decommissioning during a visit to Armenia on Wednesday.
Israel’s Agriculture Minister Orit Noked laid a wreath at the Armenian Genocide Memorial in Yerevan on Monday during what was a rare visit to Armenia by an Israeli cabinet member.
The Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun) rallied thousands of supporters in Yerevan and called for a “comprehensive” change of the country’s government and political system at the start of its election campaign on Tuesday.
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