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Headlines for December 05, 2005

SERIOUS REGRESS
«The whole process of referendum was held with obvious violations of the RA legislation and the norms of international rights which seriously affected the results of the referendum. When it comes to lawfulness, ...
NEW LAWS
Today Robert Kocharyan signed the laws on introducing changes into the RA Laws on Organization of checks, Simplified tax, Profit tax, Administrative violations, and Local governing bodies. {BR}
PARALYSIS BECAUSE OF FOG
Numerous Armenian businessmen who left for abroad on official duty are not able to return to Armenia. The same goes on with those who must leave Armenia: they are kept hostage in the airport. The reason ...
FINE OR IMPRISONMENT
The illegal constructions can no more be legalized. Head of the judicial administration of the Yerevan municipality Artyom Sargsyan informed us about it today. {BR} According to him, some amendments ...
PEOPLE DO NOT BELIEVE IN THE CONSTITUTIONAL “YES”
“How true are the returns of the constitutional referendum?” According to the results of the internet poll, the majority of its participants do not believe that the draft amendments received 94% “Yes” ...
DEEPENING OF THE NEGOTIATIONS
Yesterday the co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk group met the Foreign Ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan Vardan Oskanyan and Elmar Mamedyarov in the capital of Slovenia. {BR} The Minsk group diplomats have ...
CHAIRMAN-IN-OFFICE URGES FOREIGN MINISTERS' MEETING TO SHARPEN OSCE'S FOCUS AND EXPAND CAPABILITIES
Opening the 13th Ministerial Council of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, Slovenian Foreign Minister Dimitrij Rupel called on the 55 participating States to take decisions that ...
LITERATE ATTACK OF THE PARLIAMENTARY OPPOSITION
Today the Parliamentary opposition organized an «attack» on the NA President Arthur Baghdasaryan: after representing the agenda of the NA 6th sitting the NA speaker appeared in an unusually absurd situation. ...
EU STATEMENT ON THE 27 NOVEMBER REFERENDUM ON CHANGES TO THE RA CONSTITUTION
The British Embassy today issued the following press release on behalf of the European Union Member States represented in Yerevan. “The EU welcomes the Government of Armenia’s positive role in the process ...
OPPOSITION WAITING FOR AN ANSWER
Today the main theme of conversation in the Parliament was the “attack” of the opposition on Arthur Baghdasaryan. It was obvious that the members of the authorities were most content with the awkward ...
ADVOCATES STILL ALARMED
Today the advocates of prisoner Razmik Sargsyan and a number of NGOs rendered a press conference to speak about his health. The reason of the meeting was the announcements of the Justice Ministry that ...
NO PROBLEMS WITH KOCHARYAN
The head of the Justice fraction, as well as those of the other fractions received a letter from the NA speaker asking them to revise the participation of their members in the international committees. ...
«SHIRAK» HAS BECOME «ZVARTNOTS»
The Gyumri «Shirak» airport has been doing with unprecedented amount of work for the last two days. The reason is that the Yerevan «Zvartnots» airport is not able to fulfill its duty because of the thick ...
FACING DEATH FOR THE SAKE OF INTERNATIONAL REPUTATION?
Today the NA was to discuss the issue of prolonging the contract of sending the Armenia soldiers to Iraq in a closed session. But because of the absence of quorum the session was open. {BR} Defense Minister ...
"THE PEOPLE OF KARABAKH ARE WAITING FOR THE PROMISES TO BE KEPT"
Today the RA Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanyan made speech in the 13th session of the OSCE Ministers Council. His speech was as follows: «It is 30 years since the Helsinki Final Act. The world and the ...