USAID/ARMENIA suspended program might be recommencedSeptember 29, 2009 - 22:25 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - On September 29, Vice Speaker of RA Parliament Arevik Petrosyan met the Director of US International Development Agency (USAID) Jatinder Cheema. The meeting focused on USAID/ARMENIA suspended program recommencement, organizational matters and activity spheres selection.On behalf of RA NA Chairman Hovik Abrahamyan, Vice Speaker of RA Parliament Arevik Petrosyan emphasized the importance of program recommencement. Within program frameworks, the parties discussed RA NA's professional and technical re-equipment. They stressed the importance of memorandum conclusion to specify concrete collaboration sphere, RA NA press service reported. 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 | Lemkin Institute petition seeks release of Armenians in Azerbaijan The Lemkin Institute is deeply concerned about the continued illegal detention of political prisoners from Karabakh in Azerbaijan. Armenian Catholicos calls for national unity against threats Karekin II issued a message on Republic Day marking the anniversary of the First Armenian Republic. Opposition leader, supporters spend night at Sardarapat memorial Police made nearly 300 arrests the day before as Galstanyan and his supporters continued to demonstrate in Yerevan. Armenia designates flood-hit communities as disaster areas The emergency situation was created by floods caused by heavy rains in Armenia’s north on May 25-26. |