  RPA: less businessmen will have seats in new parliament April 8, 2011 - 12:40 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Less number of businessmen will have seats in the new parliament, according to a member of the ruling Republican Party of Armenia. “After the 2012 parliamentary election, the influence of business on the Armenian parliament will vanish,” Gagik Melikyan told a press conference in Yerevan. “This is a global process and Armenia is not an exception.” As to rumors that RPA started purging the ranks on the threshold of the parliamentary election, he said that it’s an ordinary process for the party which takes place periodically irrelative of scheduled elections.   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 |  Latest news International cybercrime ringleaders arrested in Armenia, Ukraine  Europol, Europe's crime agency, has arrested four ringleaders of several cybercrime networks that used botnets.Armenia skips CSTO Defense Ministers meeting A meeting of the Council of Defense Ministers of the Collective Security Treaty Organization countries began in Almaty.Armenia, U.S. customs authorities to boost assistance with new deal The government has approved an agreement with the U.S. government on mutual assistance between the customs authorities.Armenia, Russia agree on repairing railway destroyed in floods Yerevan and Moscow have agreed to repair a flood-stricken railway in northern Armenia. |
