Minister: Prosperous Armenia’s statement helping hand to ARFDNovember 8, 2012 - 21:03 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Armenian Education Minister Armen Ashotyan commented on ARF Dashnaktsutyun’s proposal to shift to parliamentary system of government. The statements followed a similar proposal by Prosperous Armenia. Dwelling on the two parties’ statements, Minister Ashotyan noted on his Facebook page, “Prosperous Armenia’s proposal came as a helping hand to ARFD. The latter has had a series of political failures since 2009. The chain of failures resulted in the party’s entry to the parliament with the smallest faction. Today, ARFD doesn’t even have an adequate candidate for the upcoming presidential elections. This is a big tragedy for Armenia’s political culture and history. In civilized countries failures usually force the party heads to send in resignation, yielding the platform to new figures and ideas. ARFD deserves a better history.” 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 | 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. Aram I supports Karekin II’s “patriotic position” Catholicos of the Great House of Cilicia Aram I has expressed support for the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin. U.S. believes peace is “possible” in South Caucasus The United States continues to believe that peace is possible in the South Caucasus, Vedant Patel said. |