The key figures of Levon Ter-Petrosyan ensure that 4-5 years ago Armenia’s first president had a phone conversation with a high-ranking official from Russia. Even the closest loyalists of Ter-Petrosyan don’t know who the first president has spoken to. But that is not the important thing.
According to former foreign affairs minister of Armenia Alexander Arzumanyan, it is the duty of every force and every citizen concerned with the fate of Armenia to do its best for the sovereignty of Nagorno Karabakh to be sustained. Arzumanyan says, “The situation of Armenian authorities is not enviable, as they will face open pressures from Russia, as it was with the case of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.”
“If Russia or other state have the wish to become part of Armenia or Artsakh, let them do so. We don’t want to become part of any other state. For us, independence is a sacred value,” told to Gala TV General Manvel Grigoryan. He said that he had lost friends and relatives in the war.
The second largest “moneylender” is Aram Harutyunyan, minister of environment. In 2012 he received 27.9 million dram interest rate from deposits. In addition to this amount, he also had 21.6 income generated as payments and 15.9 as shareholder’s interest. Generally by the end of the year he received 84.5 million dram, 8,200 dollars and 643 Euro on his account. We see that the minister of environment is wealthy and keeps his money in Euro.
In my opinion, the case of the Crimean population was not determined but the act imposed a neighboring state, not only the existence of the Russian Army has been put into question the freedom of the referendum, but also the fact that the army is openly involved in the latest developments appeared in the so-called self-defense units that protects the border with Ukraine, Crimea.
There is a principle about integrity of borders, and there is also a principle of nations’ self-determination. The people of Arstakh used their right for self-determination. Personally I am for the principle of integrity of borders; however, it is not the right thing to go against facts that are reality.
Yesterday the government of Karabakh released a statement, which says that “The foreign ministry of the Republic of Nagorno Karabakh recognizes the referendum of the people of the Crimea on March 16 as another implementation of people’s right for self-determination.
Today we are all following the activities taking place in Ukraine. We have known that Russia and Ukraine have had strong brotherly relations for centuries, which is no obstacle for Russia to deploy its troops in the territory of Ukraine and in Crimea particularly. And this process creates new separating lines and this is a very dangerous process. At some point this threat existed during the Russian-Georgian war when Armenia should have expressed its standpoint regarding the military actions based on the fact that is a member state of the Collective Security Pact.
The Armenian authorities are not speaking anything about the Ukrainian crisis, and the Armenian society does not know whether our government endorses the Ukrainian interim government that is supported by the entire civilized world,” said ANM party board member Ararat Zurabyan to 168 Zham.
The bill was initiated by parliamentarians Samvel Pharmanyan, Arman Sahakyan, Levon Martirosyan, Naira Karapetyan, Arthur Gevorgyan, Edmon Marukyan and Tachat Vardapetyan. This law will allow TV companies to advertise alcohol (more than 20%) and cigarette between 10:00p.m. and 06:00a.m.
