Orinats Yerkir parliamentary group to support Serzh Sargsyan at 2013 presidential electionsNovember 8, 2010 - 14:59 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - The chairman of parliamentary commission for agriculture and nature protection, a member of Orinats Yerkir parliamentary group Khachik Harutyunyan expressed the group’s intention to support the candidature of Serzh Sargsyan at 2013 presidential elections. As he noted at news conference in Yerevan, in 2008, the parliamentary group leader Artur Baghdasaryan and Serzh Sargsyan signed a coalition agreement. The agreement stipulated for Baghdasaryan to refrain from running for president in 2013. “We intend to fulfil the agreement in question,” he said. 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. |