I think nobody wants war so we have to look at all measures that we can take. We want to send a clear message that we believe that Russia’s actions aren’t acceptable and are out of the bounds of the international law.
Raffi K. Hovannisian today received a visiting delegation of British legislators headed by John Whittingdale, leader of the British group of the Inter-Parliamentary Union. The delegation included Baroness Gloria Hooper and Lord Richard Faulkner of the House of Lords and Harriett Baldwin and Stephen Pound of the House of Commo
Today we were informed that the EU 13 countries have worked out an action plan for continuing cooperation with countries of the Eastern Partnership project. In Armenia this project is called “European Package.”
In Armenia we notice a shocking phenomenon. The government calls all of its actions, even the most negative with a lofty goal – “We are doing it for the people.” It means they usually do it for the people, whose pockets are emptied for this goal.
In Armenia so far only 40 people have undergone regenerative plastic surgery, as announced by Gagik Stamboultsyan, director of Avan Guard medical center. Plastic regenerative surgeries allow correction of body defects through transplanting fat from the same body. Such surgeries help to make hands, neck and face younger, correct scars, as well as make breasts and other parts of the body bigger.
While the society and political powers are waiting till the decree of the Constitutional Court on the government-proposed pension fund law on March 28, the Central Bank has come up with an announcement which demolished all expectations of the society from the Constitutional Court.
Since the fall session of the parliament ANC MPs have asked a number of times why the parliament does not discuss the bill on compensating homicide victims as suggested by European convention. The bill is in the parliament’s agenda for ten years.
On February 7, in accordance with the arrangement reached with the authorities of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic, the OSCE Mission will conduct a planned monitoring of the Line of Contact between the armed forces of Nagorno Karabakh and Azerbaijan in the Hadrut direction near Horadiz settlement.
Perhaps everybody has seen the commercial of the new pension reform with participation of the devil and the angel. In that commercial the angel is trying to persuade the public that the more you invest in the pension fund the more the state will invest on your behalf.
The parliament of Armenia has adopted a bill increasing the number of the Controller Commission members from 7 to 11. Five seats are given to RPA, and one seat to LS and each of the four non-government political parties represented in the parliament. The non-government parties claim that it is unacceptable to give majority in the commission to RPA, and for this reason they do not accept their seats.
