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PASSING TO 100-PERCENT PROPORTIONAL ELECTION SYSTEM IS INEXPEDIENT - ARMENIAN RULING PARTY MP
- YEREVAN. - Passing to a 100-percent proportional election system is inexpedient at this phase, the ruling coalition's Republican Party of Armenia MP Hovhannes Sahakyan stated during a press conference on Tuesday.
The MP recalled that this matter needs a two-sided observation: juridical and political. In the first case, a change in the election system demands legislative and constitutional changes. And concerning the political aspect of the matter, as per Sahakyan, the opposition's arguments that the majority election system contributes to the "appearance" of merchants in the parliament, these arguments are not sufficiently justified for a change in the election system.
Hovhannes Sahakyan also underscored that the issue is not the system, but rather how the election tools are being used.
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Headlines for January 10, 2012NEW FRENCH PACE CHAIR MAY RETURN ORGANIZATION ITS BASIC VALUES
YEREVAN. - Parliament Assembly of Council of Europe will hold winter session on Jan 23-27 and is clearly directed to human rights, Armenian delegation member at PACE Naira Zohrabyan told Armenian News-NEWS.am.
According ...ARMENIAN CLANS BECAME KURDISH AND LEAVE IN TURKEY
Turkish Nationalist Movement Party MP, former chairperson of the Turkish Historical Society Usuf Halacoglu again tried to refute the historical fact of the Armenian Genocide during a TV program on a Turkish ...WE MUST WORK HARD TO ORGANIZE TRANSPARENT ELECTIONS IN ARMENIA - PARLIAMENT VICE SPEAKER
YEREVAN. - The main step of ruling Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) in 2012 will be organizing free and fair parliamentary elections, the vice speaker of the Armenian Parliament and press secretary of ...DUNDEE PRECIOUS METALS TO FINISH PREFEASIBILITY STUDY OF OPEN-PIT AT KAPAN GOLD-POLYMETALIC MINE, ARMENIA, IN Q3 2012
Dundee Precious Metals plans to finish prefeasibility study of open-pit at Kapan gold-polymetallic mine, Armenia, in Q3 2012, DPM's President and CEO, Jonathan Goodman, told Armenian News - NEWS.am.
Dundee's ...CRIMINAL CASE ON TEENAGER'S RAPE INVOLVING ARMENIAN CITY MAYOR'S SON ENDS
YEREVAN. - The criminal case on rape launched against the son of Armenian Noyemberyan city mayor is in the final phase, the mayor of Noyemberyan informed the reporter of Armenian News-NEWS.am.
"Everything ...STATEMENT OF ALGERIAN PM WAS BLOW FOR TURKEY - EXPERT
YEREVAN. - The threats made by Turkey after the adoption of the bill on criminalizing the denial of the Armenian Genocide had the opposite effects, expert Andranik Ispiryan told Armenian News-NEWS.am ...WE MUST APOLOGIZE TO ARMENIANS FOR 1915, I APOLOGIZE - TURKISH RULING PARTY MP
ISTANBUL. - In an interview with Istanbul's Agos Armenian weekly, Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) MP Ismet Ucma said the deportation of innocent people in 1915 was a mistake for which ...ARMENIAN RULING COALITION MP TO HEAD PARTY ELECTION HEADQUARTERS - NEWSPAPER
YEREVAN. - Armenia's ruling coalition partner Rule of Law Party's (RLP) Parliamentary Faction leader Heghine Bisharyan will head the Party's headquarters for the parliamentary elections to be held in ...BUSINESSWOMAN TO FILE PETITION WITH EUROPEAN COURT AGAINST ARMENIA? - NEWSPAPER
YEREVAN. - Now former owner of Parisian Coffee company in Armenia, French-Armenian businesswoman Valerie-Ashkhen Gortzounian could file a petition with the European Court against the Government of Armenia, ...ARMENIAN FINANCE MINISTRY'S DEPARTMENT CHIEFS RECEIVE SIZABLE BONUS PAYS - NEWSPAPER
YEREVAN. - Even though Armenia's Finance Minister Vache Gabrielyan had decided to save money on the toys to be placed on the Ministry's Christmas tree and [therefore] instructed the employees to bring ...ARMENIAN JUDGE'S SON DIES OF GAS POISONING - NEWSPAPER
YEREVAN. - The 26-year-old son of Martin Saroyan, a judge at Armenia's Shirak Region's General Jurisdiction Court, suffocated to death at his own garage a day before the New Year holidays, Aravot daily ...HOTEL PREPARES TO SUE ARMENIAN POLITICIAN - NEWSPAPER
YEREVAN. - Harutyun Arakelyan convened a special congress of Ramkavar Liberal Party of Armenia at capital Yerevan's Congress Hotel on October 15, but he has not yet paid the Hotel the amount (100,000 ...ARMENIA'S MEGHRI AND SELIM MOUNTAIN PASSES ARE DIFFICULT TO DRIVE
YEREVAN. - All of Armenia's motorways are open and passable as of Tuesday 8:30 a.m., the Ministry of Emergency Situations informed Armenian News-NEWS.am.
But the Selim Mountain Pass is difficult to drive. ...ONE FOREIGN PLAYER REMAINS AT ARMENIA'S FC BANANTS
By Khachik Chakhoyan
YEREVAN. - Armenian capital Yerevan's FC Banants, which captured fourth place at the country's Premiere League, resumed its trainings.
And Brazilian Du Bala is the Club's only foreign ...ANOTHER CARBON MONOXIDE POISONING IN YEREVAN
YEREVAN. - Another case of carbon monoxide poisoning was recorded in Armenia's capital, Yerevan, on Monday.
Information was received from the first aid hotline that Yerevan apartment resident Anna Marutyan, ...ELDERLY IS KILLED IN ARMENIAN VILLAGE
YEREVAN. - A 23-year-old informed Armenian Police Force's Ararat Precinct, on Monday, that on the same day he discovered, at Urtsadzor village, the dead body of his grandfather, Ashot Melikyan, 73.
Multiple ...FRENCH SENATE TO DEBATE ARMENIA GENOCIDE BILL ON JANUARY 23 - LE FIGARO
A bill penalizing genocide denials, in particular the Armenian Genocide denial, will be included in French Senate's agenda in January.
The bill will be debated on January 23, Minister for relationship ...MAN STEALS ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT FROM ARMENIA'S MEGHRI CITY CANNERY PLANT
YEREVAN. - Armenia's Police Force received information Monday from the director of Meghri city's cannery plant that eight electrical engines, a hoist control panel, a variety of equipment, copper cords, ...ARMENIAN TEENAGE STEALS MOBILE
YEREVAN. - A 15-year-old boy informed police that his mobile was stolen in a karaoke-bar at on Monday evening.
It was clarified that Arman B., 16 stole the mobile, police press service informs Armenian ...ARMENIAN YOUTH ROAMS ABOUT WITH MARIJUANA IN POCKET
YEREVAN. - Officers from Armenian Police Force's Tashir Precinct detained Monday a 23-year-old on suspicion of carrying illegal drugs, as the police had found a marijuana-like substance in his possession. ...WOMAN TORCHES HERSELF IN ARMENIAN VILLAGE
YEREVAN. - Information was received Tuesday from Armenia's Etchmiadzin city that a citizen had set herself on fire.
Taronik village resident Silva Baghdasaryan, 55, set her clothes on fire with a match. ...WHAT IS THE HEALTH CONDITION OF ARMENIANS WHO WERE AFFECTED FROM MOSCOW RESTAURANT BLAST AND FIRE?
MOSCOW. - The health condition is ascertained of the five Armenians who were affected from Monday's natural-gas-leak caused explosion and fire in Moscow's Il Pittore Italian restaurant.
In line with the ...RALLIES OF ARMENIAN RADICAL OPPOSITION WILL HARDLY BE CROWDED
YEREVAN.- Rallies of radical opposition in the name of Armenian National Congress (ANC) will hardly be as crowded this year as they used to be, political analyst Alexander Iskandaryan told journalists ...TURKEY WILL CONTINUE TO IMPOSE ITS 8-POINT SANCTIONS AGAINST FRANCE - TURKISH PM
During a joint press conference with his Norwegian counterpart Jens Stoltenberg, Turkish PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan reflected on regional issues, with the French National Assembly's passing of the bill that ...WAR AGAINST IRAN AHEAD OF ELECTIONS MADNESS FOR US - ARMENIAN EXPERT
YEREVAN.- A war against Iran ahead of elections may become insanity for U.S., Armenian political analyst Alexander Iskandaryan told journalists on Tuesday.
The head of Caucasus Institute considers that ...EPIDEMIOLOGICAL SITUATION IS CALM IN ARMENIA
YEREVAN. - The epidemiological situation is calm in Armenia, Health Ministry's State Hygienic and Epidemic Control Inspectorate Chief Artavazd Vanyan said during a press conference on Tuesday.
In his ...OBAMA DISMISSES WHITE HOUSE CHIEF OF STAFF
U.S. President Barack Obama dismissed head of White House Chief of Staff William Daley ahead of pre-election year.
He will be replaced by budget director Jack Lew.
Obama expressed gratitude to Daley for ...PASSING TO 100-PERCENT PROPORTIONAL ELECTION SYSTEM IS INEXPEDIENT - ARMENIAN RULING PARTY MP
YEREVAN. - Passing to a 100-percent proportional election system is inexpedient at this phase, the ruling coalition's Republican Party of Armenia MP Hovhannes Sahakyan stated during a press conference ...YEREVAN HAD 447 NEWBORNS IN FIRST 9 DAYS OF 2012 - HEALTH MINISTRY
YEREVAN. - 447 babies were born, in the Armenian capital Yerevan, in the first nine days of 2012, Health Ministry Chief of Staff Suren Krmoyan stated during a press conference on Tuesday.
He also informed ...IN CIS, HIGHEST INFLATION IS IN BELARUS, LOWEST IS IN GEORGIA
The highest inflation rate in CIS countries in 2011 was recorded in Belarus, with 109 percent, the Belarusian and Russian media report. The hyperinflation in this country was caused by the foreign currency ...GEORGIA'S FIRST PRESIDENT HIGHLY CONCERNED OVER INCREASING NUMBER OF ARMENIANS AND AZERBAIJANIS
TBILISI. - Georgia's ex-President Eduard Shevardnadze is highly concerned over the demographic situation in Georgia. According to him, the Georgian nation is 'on the brink of extinction,' while authorities ...FIFTH POWER BLOCK OF ARMENIA'S HRAZDAN THERMAL PLANT WILL OPERATE THIS MONTH
YEREVAN. - For ArmRusGazprom Company the year 2011 stood out by the end of the construction and updating program of Hrazdan 5 — fifth power block of Armenia's Hrazdan Thermal Power Plant—the ...OVER 73 FOREIGNERS APPLIED FOR ASYLUM IN ARMENIA LAST YEAR
YEREVAN. - Over 73 foreigners appealed for asylum at the migration state service last year, out of which only 48 applications were approved, deputy PM, Minister of Territorial Administration Armen Gevorgyan ...ARMENIAN HRAZDAN CITY'S INCUMBENT AND FORMER MAYORS TO RUN IN UPCOMING MAYORAL ELECTIONS
HRAZDAN. - At present, Armenian Hrazdan city's incumbent mayor—the ruling coalition's Republican Party of Armenia member—Aram Danielyan, and city's former mayor—former MP and opposition ...ARMENIA'S REPUBLICAN PARTY MAY PARTICIPATE IN ELECTIONS WITH SEPARATE PARTY LIST
YEREVAN.- Armenia's ruling Republican Party is inclined to participation in the parliamentary elections with a separate party list, MP Hovhannes Sahakyan told journalists on Tuesday.
Asked about possible ...$1 NEARS AMD 388
By Samvel Avagyan
YEREVAN. - US Dollar's exchange rate against the Armenian Dram (AMD) comprised AMD 387.96, at NASDAQ OMX Armenia stock exchange on Tuesday, which is a 0.18-percent increase from Monday. ...ARMENIANS THIRD AMONG VISITORS IN GEORGIA
YEREVAN. - Armenia is the third state on the number of visitors to Georgia last year. According to the Georgian National Agency statistics, 699,391 Armenians visited Georgia last year, a 28% increase ...PRESIDENT OF ARMENIA ESTABLISHES COMMITTEE ON ETHICS
YEREVAN. - President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan signed a decree on establishing a Committee on Ethics of High Ranking Officials.
The committee has already conveyed the first meeting to elect Emil Babayan ...UK AMBASSADORS PRESENT COPIES OF THEIR CREDENTIALS TO ARMENIAN FM
YEREVAN. - Armenia's FM Edward Nalbandian received Tuesday Jonathan James Aves and Catherine Jane Leach, the newly appointed ambassadors of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to ...NEW DEVELOPMENTS AT HRANT DINK'S MURDER TRIAL
ISTANBUL. - During the next court hearing into the murder of Hrant Dink—the founder and former chief editor of Istanbul's Agos Armenian weekly, who was killed in 2007—the Dink family's attorney, ...SURVEILLANCE CAMERAS TO FUNCTION IN YEREVAN FROM JANUARY 16
YEREVAN.- Armenian police reported that surveillance cameras installed in major streets in Yerevan will start operating from January 16.
Police urged the drivers to obey traffic rules.NEW HEAD OF OSCE TO PRESENT PRIORITIES FOR 2012
The new OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Irish Deputy Prime Minister, Eamon Gilmore, will present the Irish Chairmanship's priorities to the OSCE Permanent Council on January 12 in Vienna.
"These priorities ...TURKISH ENVOY WARNS PARIS
PARIS. - Turkish Ambassador in France Tahsin Burcuoglu who was recalled to Ankara after bill penalizing Armenian Genocide denial was approved by French parliament, returned to Paris to improve contacts ...ARMENIAN DEPUTY JUSTICE MINISTER TO HEAD STATE COMMITTEE ON ETHICS
YEREVAN. - Deputy Minister of Justice Emil Babayan was dismissed under the decision of Armenian Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan.
He will head a newly established State Committee on Ethics of High Ranking ...
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