Paper: Free Democrats go back on promise to HeritageOctober 3, 2012 - 13:10 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - A new scandal is brewing between Raffi Hovannisian’s Heritage party and Khachatur Kokobelyan-led Free Democrats, Haykakan Zhamanak daily said. According to the paper, Kokobelyan went back on his promise to resign his MP seat. As was earlier agreed with Free Democrats party leader, Hovannisian pledged to quit his seat in case the former does so. However, as Kokobelyan failed to follow Hovannisian’s suit in submitting an application to quit his deputy seat, Hovannisian’s recalling the application was discussed at Heritage political party sitting on Tuesday, Oct 1. Top stories President of the Armenian parliament Alen Simonyan met with the Speaker of the Azerbaijani Milli Majlis Sahiba Gafarova. Achieving stable peace between Armenia and Azerbaijan remains a priority of the OSCE, said Ian Borg. The Cabinet of Ministers decided on Thursday, November 9 to allocated AMD 120 million to arrange the gathering. Michael Roth believes sanctions must be put on the table after Baku‘s ethnic cleansing in Nagorno-Karabakh. Partner news | Ameriabank's Trade Finance portfolio enriched with four prestigious awards from EBRD and IFC Ameriabank received the awards from international financial institutions in recognition of its trade finance operations. Armenian Economy Minister to make trip to UAE May 20-22 A delegation led by Minister of Economy Gevorg Papoyan will travel to the UAE capital of Abu Dhabi on May 20-22 Armenian PM sends condolences to Iran Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan sent a message of condolence to the Supreme Leader Seyyed Ali Khamenei. Armenia, Turkey discuss restoration of historic bridge The meeting took place on May 17 in Ashgabat on the sidelines of an international conference of ministers of culture. |