  Hayrikyan urges candidate Ghukasyan to join forces  February 9, 2013 - 16:36 AMTPanARMENIAN.Net - Armenian presidential hopeful Paruyr Hayrikyan met with another candidate Andrias Ghukasyan, who has been on hunger strike for already for 20 days. As Hayrikyan wrote on Facebook social network, he offered Ghukasyan to join forces for the upcoming polls and nominate a common candidate. Paruyr Hayrikyan earlier addressed an open letter to candidates Raffi Hovannisian and Hrant Bagratyan with a similar call. Candidate Ghukasyan demands for the candidate of the ruling Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) Serzh Sargsyan to be disallowed to run for president. 7 candidates will run for the post of Armenian president: Republican Party of Armenia (RPA), incumbent president Serzh Sargsyan, Heritage party chairman Raffi Hovannissian, leader of Freedom party, former prime minister Hrant Bagratyan, former foreign minister of Nagorno Karabakh Republic Arman Melikyan, National Self-Determination Union party head Paruyr Hayrikyan, Radio Hay director Andreas Ghukasyan and literature expert Vardan Sedrakyan. Partner news  Top stories Dwelling on the hike in gas prices, Iskandaryan said the change also affected other countries importing Russian gas. Armen Martirosyan noted that the price rise will further deteriorate the situation in the country, fostering emigration. In this connection, Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian left for Strasbourg to attend CoE foreign ministers meeting. Orinats Yerkir party held a political council meeting on May 15, chaired by party leader Artur Baghdasaryan.   Partner news |  Topic Latest news Brad Pitt’s “World War Z” to open Moscow Film Fest  The fest will feature retrospectives of films by Bernardo Bertolucci and Costa Gavras, as well as a program devoted to Dutch cinema.Wrekin Hill picks up John Malkovich’s “Siberian Education” Based on the novel by Nicolai Lilin, the film is set in the ghetto of Soviet Russia and follows 2 boys who are members of a gang of exiled Siberians.Germans blame Merkel’s stance in eurozone crisis for Eurovision debacle Chancellor Angela Merkel is loathed in parts of Europe for her insisting on painful austerity measures in Greece, Spain and Italy.China’s PM visits India to settle boundary row, boost ties China says Li Keqiang choice of India for his first trip abroad shows the importance Beijing attaches to improving relations with New Delhi. |
