Heritage party urges to punish policemen who dispersed rally in YerevanMarch 3, 2011 - 13:26 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Chief of Staff of the Armenian government David Sargsyan received head of Heritage parliamentary group Stepan Safaryan with respect to the incident near the government building Street traders, Armenian parliament members and policemen clashed in Yerevan on March 3. Street traders, who were protesting against the decision of Yerevan Mayor’s Office to ban street trade for several weeks, planned to hold a protest action at 11:00am in front of the Armenian government building. However, the governmental building was encircled by hundreds of policemen, who prevented rally participants from approaching the governmental building. This has resulted in a clash between peace activists and policemen, who applied force towards the rally participants. During the meeting, Safaryan urged to punish those policemen who applied force towards rally participants and members of the Armenian parliament. Safaryan insisted on placement of the video material showing the incident near the governmental building on the RA police website without editing it. 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 | Putin congratulates Pashinyan’s birthday Russian President Vladimir Putin congratulated Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan on his birthday on June 1. Opposition motorcade en route to Gyumri for large rally A motorcade of protesters headed by Archbishop Bagrat Galstanyan is heading to the city of Gyumri. Russia: Armenia’s frozen membership weakens CSTO position in Caucasus A Russian envoy said any step that could alienate the CSTO member states from each other is “deeply wrong”. Prosecutors to appeal Armenia ex-President’s acquittal Sargsyan was acquitted on Friday, May 31 more than four years after going on trial on corruption charges. |