Armenia’s RPA rules out clashes over parliamentary withdrawalsMay 4, 2017 - 16:29 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Spokesman for the ruling Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) Eduard Sharmazanov on Thursday, May 4 ruled out clashes inside the party over several MP-elects’ withdrawals, Aysor.am reports. “No such thing is possible inside the Republican party,” Sharmazanov said, adding that decisions are jointly implemented in RPA. “We have party discipline. Whatever happened to Tsarukyan bloc can never occur inside out party. All the nine lawmakers who gave up their mandates, have done so by the whole party’s decision. We work as a team.” The Central Electoral Commission said on Tuesday that 35 newly-elected lawmakers - nine from RPA, three from the Armenian Revolutionary Federation Dashnaktsutyun (ARFD), and 23 from Tsarukyan bloc - have given up their mandates. Some of the Tsarukyan bloc members later applied to the CEC with a request to annul the withdrawal application, eight of them ultimately winning back parliamentary seats. 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 | Yeremyan Projects opens state-of-the-art dairy production plant Yeremyan Projects officially launched the Yeremyan Products state-of-the-art milk processing plant in Yerevan on May 24. Azerbaijan's defense spending set to increase by 11% Azerbaijan's spending on defense and national security will increase by 11%, according to a fresh bill. Armenian PM’s helicopter makes emergency landing in Vanadzor The helicopter transporting Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan made an emergency landing in Vanadzor. Lavrov says envoys “periodically” summoned for consultations Sergei Lavrov has commented Moscow’s summoning of Russian Ambassador to Armenia Sergei Kopyrkin. |