Paper: Tsarukyan to announce presidency decision early DecemberNovember 17, 2012 - 12:37 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - According to Hraparak paper, Prosperous Armenia party leader Gagik Tsarukyan will announce his final decision on the format of participation in the upcoming presidential elections in 15 days. “Tsarukyan has voiced readiness to back President Serzh Sargsyan during his meetings with him, in exchange for maintaining the party’s present image. Prosperous Armenia head once again demanded the prime minister’s post, with President Sargsyan offering seats of deputy prime ministers and ministers instead. As for the political discussions and the signature campaign at the special meeting, they aim to show Prosperous Armenia’s being a key force, with the party likely to decide on endorsing the country’s leader, considering the Nagorno Karabakh issue and the regional problems. Meanwhile, former foreign minister Vartan Oskanian, who is considered ex-president Robert Kocharian’s team member, noted that his future actions will be based on the party’s decisions,” the paper says. 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. |