People’s Party rally participants were handed red cards carrying Our Father prayerFebruary 28, 2011 - 16:21 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - On February 28, several thousands of people gathered for Tigran Karapateyan’s People’s Party rally at Matenadaran, the institute of ancient manuscripts. As he stated, the authorities blocked the roads to prevent the residents of Armenia’s regions from arriving in the capital to participate in the rally. “Shame on democracy that doesn’t exist, on the system which blocks the roads to hush up the popular voice,” Karapetyan said. The People’s Party leader urged all those gathered to commemorate the victims of March 1, 2008 events as well as Sumgait massacres, which he named a “new genocide”. The party secretary Manvel Margaryan, in turn, called on the Armenian people to follow the example of the Arabic nations. Before the start of the rally, the party activists distributed red cards carrying the prayer Our Father among all those gathered. 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 | U.S. “deeply troubled” by Azerbaijan's arrest of civil society members The United States is deeply troubled by the continued arrest of members of Azerbaijani civil society, Matthew Miller has said. Turkey condemns Uruguay’s recognition of Armenian Genocide Turkey has condemned a newly passed law in Uruguay that recognizes the Armenian Genocide, TRT reports. For the first time, Armenia votes in favor of Georgia resolution in UN Armenia on Tuesday, June 4 voted for the first time in favor a resolution adopted by the United Nations General Assembly. Moscow warns Armenia against leaving Russian-led defense bloc Armenia could ruin its military ties with Russia if it continues drifting towards the West, according to a senior official in Moscow. |