RA FM on parliamentarian elections: This time we do not have right to make a mistakeApril 20, 2007 - 20:38 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - "The parliamentarian elections are a great challenge for Armenia. This time we do not have the right to make a mistake. The latest elections were accompanied by a number of defects," Armenian Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian stated at the interview to Austrian newspaper Der Standart. He thinks, Armenia became more mature, more democratic. "A lot of things are at stake: elections will be held to the parliament, which gets additional power after the amendments to the Organic Law. Now the legislative body will independently appoint the future Prime Minister. For the first time ever we will get a real political system of mutual control," Oskanian stressed. 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 | Police try to impede Armenian Church head’s access to war memorial Police tried to stop the supreme head of the Armenian Apostolic Church, Catholicos Karekin II, from visiting a war memorial. Greece says ready to help as Armenia fights flooding consequences Greece is ready to assist Armenia in combatting the consequences of deadly floods in the country’s north. “He will leave”: Protest leader no longer demands meeting with Pashinyan Archbishop Bagrat Galstanyan no longer demands a meeting with Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan. Lemkin Institute petition seeks release of Armenians in Azerbaijan The Lemkin Institute is deeply concerned about the continued illegal detention of political prisoners from Karabakh in Azerbaijan. |