At a press conference today with the international news outlets, anti-government protest leader Nikol Pashinyan said the “Velvet Revolution” in Armenia isn’t over.
Civil Contract political party spokesman Tigran Avinyan says that tomorrow’s scheduled meeting between anti-government leader Nikol Pashinyan and Acting Armenian Prime Minister Karen Karapetyan has been cancelled since the two sides haven’t reached a consensus on the agenda.
Protest Leader Pashinyan Holds International Press Conference
Referring to the protest movement’s demand that a new prime minister, selected by the people, would take over the running of the government, Karapetyan merely said, “we will sit down with Nikol Pashinyan and attempt to find solutions”.
“I thank all police officers for their dedication, for their work and tolerance,” Karapetyan said.
Children of the two most powerful officials in Azerbaijan – President Ilham Aliyev and Minister of Emergencies Kamaladdin Heydarov – used dozens of offshore companies as cover for investments in luxury properties, businesses, and high-end hotels across Europe and Middle East.
After Serzh Sargsyan resigned as prime minister on April 23, thousands gathered in Republic Square to celebrate the end of Sargsyan’s ten-year rule. After the celebration, people decided to go and clean the square at around 11am today.
The PACE co-rapporteurs for the monitoring of Armenia, Giuseppe Galati (Italy, EPP/CD) and Yuliya Lovochkina (Ukraine, SOC), have issued the following statement regarding recent political developments in the country.
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France, through Georges Clemenceau, Anatole France and Jean Jaurès, condemned the massacres of Armenian in the Ottoman Empire and accepted thousands of survivors.
It took nearly two weeks of continuous peaceful civil disobedience before Serzh Sargsyan called it quits and resigned as prime minister on April 23.
A large crowd of people had gathered outside the Etchmiadzin Hospital after spotting a number of parked cars belonging to Manvel Grigoryan, a former Armenian Army general and currently a Republican Party of Armenia MP.
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