Preliminary statement on the conduct of the Constitutional Referendum Citizen Observer Initiative and European Platform for Democratic Elections Republic of Armenia
On December 7 Edward Nalbandian, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Armenia and Federica Mogherini, High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Vice-President of the Commission, announced the launch of negotiations on a new Armenia-European Union framework agreement.
Two people were arrested Sunday when Serbian police found more than 16 kilograms of heroin hidden in a truck crossing into the country at its border with Bulgaria.
Yerevan resident Zarouhie Mouradyan told Hetq that it took her 30 minutes and raising a bit of a stink to convince local election officials to file an official report when she found that others had voted in her stead at yesterday’s constitutional change referendum.
A day after the referendum to modify Armenia’s constitution passed the opposition based HAK (Armenian National Congress) declared that it would be boycotting this session of parliament.
On December 6, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic Karen Mirzoyan left for the USA on a working visit.
By a vote of 63.35% to 32.35%, Armenia’s December 6 constitutional change referendum passed, this according to the country’s Central Election Commission.
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