Heritage party urges to punish policemen who dispersed rally in YerevanMarch 3, 2011 - 13:26 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Chief of Staff of the Armenian government David Sargsyan received head of Heritage parliamentary group Stepan Safaryan with respect to the incident near the government building Street traders, Armenian parliament members and policemen clashed in Yerevan on March 3. Street traders, who were protesting against the decision of Yerevan Mayor’s Office to ban street trade for several weeks, planned to hold a protest action at 11:00am in front of the Armenian government building. However, the governmental building was encircled by hundreds of policemen, who prevented rally participants from approaching the governmental building. This has resulted in a clash between peace activists and policemen, who applied force towards the rally participants. During the meeting, Safaryan urged to punish those policemen who applied force towards rally participants and members of the Armenian parliament. Safaryan insisted on placement of the video material showing the incident near the governmental building on the RA police website without editing it. Top stories 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. The Yerevan City Council has elected Tigran Avniyan from the ruling Civil Contract as the mayor of the Armenian capital. The Armenian Parliament on Tuesday, October 3 voted to ratify the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. Partner news | The Power of One Dram to benefit Road of Life charity The companies inform that the May beneficiary of The Power of One Dram is the “Road of Life” charitable organization. Ucom General Director gives lecture at French University in Armenia The General Director of Ucom Ralph Yirikian delivered a lecture at the French University of Armenia. Kazakhstan welcomes Yerevan, Baku’s agreement to meet in Almaty Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has welcomed the agreement of Baku and Yerevan to hold negotiations in Almaty. Aliyev says no need for mediators in Armenia-Azerbaijan process Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev believes that Baku and Yerevan do not mediators in the process of normalizing relations. |