At the beginning of the NA session HAK party leader Levon Zurabyan demanded 20 minutes break. Amendments in “Management of State Property” law project was accepted with 62 for, 42 against and 0 abstentions correlation.

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Mr. Room doesn’t accept, that the fact that recently the EU has signed only the political part of the Association agreement with Ukraine, was double standard display. Turning to the events in Crimea, the representative noted, “It wasn’t free referendum. It doesn’t correspond to the international standards. I think that the EU won’t adopt the result.

"The present, third in succession, expatriation of the Kessab Armenians is a serious challenge to the mechanisms of protection of national minorities in the 21st century. I think all of us should realize that the parallels that can easily be seen should sober up all the sides," he said.

The journalist says Iran is becoming a serious factor in the region for it supplies gas to Europe.

"We call on all countries that have weighty influence on the conflict in Syria, to use all means to put an end to attacks on the residents of Kessab and ensure their safe return to their homes."

The six defendants were sentenced to 12 years in prison and were fined in the amount of AMD 100 000 each.

Only the government and army can ensure the security and development of all Armenians. The acting regime that knowingly disregards this obligation of the state cannot and must not rule the country and is to be unseated at once," reads the statement.

Several members of Armenian parliament have issued a statement, urging to send international observers to Kessab amid the ongoing tension in Syria.

Artsvik Minasyan said the two draft bills did not conflict with each other and should have been included in the agenda as an alternative to one another.

Leader of the Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK), Gagik Tsarukyan, today received a group of cabmen.

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The Social Democrat Hunchakian Party (SDHP) condemns the armed tensions in Syria’s Armenian-populated town of Kessab.

The interlocutors focused on the Nagorno-Karabakh peace process, its current stage and prospects.

Beneficiaries were provided with winter clothes and shoes, hygiene parcels and blankets.

You can follow live webcast of the parliament sitting starting 12.00.

If found guilty, they face up to 13 years in prison and a fine in the amount of AMD 100 000.

The participants of “I am against” initiative’s meeting came back to the Liberty Square after the march. Actor Ashot Adamyan made a speech. “We together with you must decide what is helpful for us, what is not,”- he said. Then they switch on music. The member of “I am against” initiative suggested having fun but remember that the work is still unfinished.

On the Liberty Square “I am against” initiative’s meeting has just ended and march has started.

All the arguments of those who are against pension reforms will reach the CC and will be adopted by multiple approvals. RA citizen, Dashnaktsutyun party deputy Artsvik Minasyan expressed such confidence at “I am against” initiative’s meeting on the Liberty Square.

HAK deputy Hrant Bagratyan noted in his speech, that since his election he told the Government, that the implementation of mandatory funded pension system is stupidity. He defines this system only by one expression- stupidity. For reasoning, he is bringing two facts- how money would be gathered by this system and how it would be spent.

Heritage party president’s speech at “I am against” meeting was not only against mandatory funded pension system.

“80 percent of the population is against the mandatory component in pension reforms, but the authorities will enter the component,”- Nikol Pashinyan reminded this announcement of Serzh Sargsyan at EVU conference in his speech now on the Liberty Square. He made his speech not as a HAK deputy but as a citizen of the RA.

“The power in the RA belongs to the people,”- the member of “I am against” initiative opened the meeting with this speech from the RA Constitution 2nd article. Then there was the anthem of Armenia.