RA NA Speaker meets with US Armenian Diaspora representativesMarch 29, 2010 - 19:37 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Monday, March 29 NA National Assembly speaker Hovik Abrahamyan met with representatives of US Armenian Diaspora: 100 school students and teachers of Armenian decent, as well as The California Courier Editor-in -Chief, Harut Sassounian.At the meeting, Hovik Abrahamyan presented the structure, functions and the role of RA NA, also replying to visitors' questions on Armenia-Turkey rapprochement and Karabakh conflict settlement. Harut Sassounian, thanked RA NA Speaker for the chance to visit Armenia. Hovik Abrahamyan, in turn, expressed readiness to further repetition of such visits, RA NA press service reported. 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. |