Stepan Safaryan: Armenian authorities saw the branch they are sitting onOctober 9, 2009 - 18:10 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - "Armenian-Turkish rapprochement based on current Protocols becomes a warm-up in Karabakh settlement process," Heritage faction MP Stepan Safaryan told a National Assembly September 9 briefing. Authorities' statements that Diaspora should achieve Genocide recognition without RA support drive a wedge between Armenia and Diaspora. "Allowing dissidence between Armenia and Diaspora means sawing the branch one is sitting on," Safaryan said. When asked by journalists why Heritage demanded President Serzh Sargsyan's resignation, he noted that signature of RA-Turkish Protocols would mark the first step in that direction. 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 | Biden honors resilience of Armenian people on April 24 U.S. President Joe Biden has issued a statement on the 109th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. Ex-Karabakh leader moved to solitary confinement cell in Baku, his son says David Vardanyan is the son of former Karabakh leader Ruben Vardanyan who who is currently imprisoned in Azerbaijan. Macron says France commemorates 109th anniv. of Armenian genocide Today France commemorates the 109th anniversary of the Armenian genocide of 1915, Macron says. Freedom House concerned by mounting reports of police violence in Armenia Freedom House urged Armenian authorities to investigate this pattern of excessive force and inhumane treatment. |