ANC leader congratulates demonstrators on authorities’ fulfillment of opposition demands May 31, 2011 - 21:03 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - During May 31 rally at liberty Square, the leader of oppositional Armenian National Congress (ANC), the first Armenian president Levon Ter-Petrossian congratulated those gathered on the authorities’ fulfillment of 3 main demands advanced by the opposition, which, he noted, is a major victory. “Undoubtedly, international community’s pressure on Armenian authorities contributed to the fact, yet the pressure would have been less effective if it were not for the ANC and the people’s efforts in a struggle against tyranny,” ANC leader stressed. Earlier, ANC advanced 3 basic demands: permission for rallies at Liberty Square, investigation of March 1-2, 2008 events, release of political prisoners. 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 | Russia clarifying reports on Baku’s alleged arms supply to Ukraine Russia says is carefully working to verify reports about alleged arms supplies from Azerbaijan to Ukraine Russia warns Armenia against “falling into West’s trap” Zakharova maintained, however, that anything that will benefit the people of Armenia can only be welcomed. CSTO: Armenia has not participated in secretariat’s work recently Recently Armenia has not participated in the work of the secretariat of the CSTO, Imangali Tasmagambetov said. Ucom launches network modernization efforts in few regions of Armenia In particular, on March 28, the legacy Mobile Switching Subsystem will be replaced with a new one. |