Armenian parties prepare for electoral campaign startMarch 6, 2007 - 17:46 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Armenian political parties have launched formation works of their electoral campaign headquarters. Three parties-The Republican Party of Armenia (RPA), ARF Dashnaktsutyun and "National Unity" (NU) have already appointed their heads of campaign headquarters. The chairman of RPA campaign headquarters will be Minister of Territorial Administration, RPA Council member Hovik Abrahamyan. ARFD appointed in this post NA Foreign Relations Committee Chairman, representative of ARFD Supreme Body of Armenia Armen Rustamyan. And the campaign headquarter of NU will lead Secretary of NU parliamentarian fraction Aleksan Karapetyan, who occupies the second place in party's electoral list. The People's Party of Armenia, The Joint Labor Party and "Prosperous Armenia", as well as "Orinats Yerkir" are still discussing the question. 175 candidates run for 41 parliamentarian mandates on majority system, that is to say, approximately 4-5 candidates run for one mandate on average. Top stories President of the Armenian parliament Alen Simonyan met with the Speaker of the Azerbaijani Milli Majlis Sahiba Gafarova. Achieving stable peace between Armenia and Azerbaijan remains a priority of the OSCE, said Ian Borg. 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. Partner news | Ameriabank's Trade Finance portfolio enriched with four prestigious awards from EBRD and IFC Ameriabank received the awards from international financial institutions in recognition of its trade finance operations. Armenian Economy Minister to make trip to UAE May 20-22 A delegation led by Minister of Economy Gevorg Papoyan will travel to the UAE capital of Abu Dhabi on May 20-22 Armenian PM sends condolences to Iran Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan sent a message of condolence to the Supreme Leader Seyyed Ali Khamenei. Armenia, Turkey discuss restoration of historic bridge The meeting took place on May 17 in Ashgabat on the sidelines of an international conference of ministers of culture. |