In this interview with Hetq, former Foreign Minister Raffi K. Hovannisian talks about the Heritage party's connection with Armenian citizens, its role in combatting electoral fraud, the emergence of a new, dynamic National Assembly and the makings of a democratic Armenia.
Business participation in the global fight against corruption is crucial, said the Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Yury Fedotov on Tuesday. Fedotov was commenting on a new United Nations initiative introduced during the week-long meeting of the International Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice (CCPCJ) in Vienna.
I just got back from an interesting roundtable discussion organized by the Sardarapat Movement regarding the potential of the Armenian diaspora, why Armenia must craft state policy designed to tap into it, and the possibility of doing so.
The Armenian village of Dovegh located in the north-eastern region of Tavoush, came under gun fire from Azerbaijani forces on April 25.
The agreement envisages the facilitation of technical, educational and informational support to the Armenian CEC for the forthcoming parliamentary elections in 2012 and the presidential election in 2013.
Interview with Former Foreign Minister Raffi K. Hovanissian
In contrast to the last parliamentary election campaign in Armenia, this time around, the political parties contesting for seats are plugging away by using more general, pie in the sky promises, to lure voters to their side.
The director of Armenian Genocide Museum Institute Hayk Demoyan spoke to bianet about the museum studies, the new partition of the museum “Anatolians that helped Armenians” and the genocide process.
The libel trial in which the Arrhythmology Cardiology Center had sued the newspaper Aravot daily came to a close when the litigants decided to reconcile in the Kentron and Nork-Marash Civil Court.
In his statement issued on 24 April 2012, US President Obama demonstrated this year once again an unfounded approach which reflects the Armenian views regarding the dispute between Turks and Armenians on the painful part of their common history. We regard this statement, which distorts the historical facts, as very problematic in every aspect and deeply regret it.
Once they were meters away from the Turkish Embassy’s gates, protesters began to burn Turkish flags, and chant anti-Turkish slogans. “We fight for justice, and we demand it from the fascist Turkish regime,” read one of the banners raised at the barbed wire separating some 200 riot police from the crowd.
How could the warmongering President of Azerbaijan be permitted to chair the UN Security Council, the august body that is supposed to promote peace and security in the world? Unfortunately, such an outrage is possible simply because it is Azerbaijan’s turn to take over the rotating chairmanship of the Security Council in the month of May.
In its front page editorial, Agos argues that Turkey would never be able to understand the state mentality of victimizing Muslim, Kurdish, Turkish and Alewi people unless it confronts and remembers 1915.
Thousands of Armenians demonstrated in a suburb of the Lebanese capital Beirut on Tuesday to commemorate the 97th anniversary of the Armenian genocide by Ottoman Turks during World War I Speaking at a commemoration ceremony at the main Armenian church in the suburb of Antelias, Patriarch Aram I denounced Turkey's efforts to expand its influence in the Middle East.
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