Yervand Bozoyan says the authorities had not calculated that the move would cause deep resonance.

BHK expresses its unconditional support to its party-mate

This year the FOICA Special Award was given to the RA Ministry of Foreign Affairs for the initiative of Armenia's membership to the Open Government Partnership (OGP)

On September 28, Armenia's National Assembly held a working meeting chaired by NA Speaker Hovik Abrahamyan.

Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK) is taking measures in response to the Prosecutor-General's petition to strip BHK MP Vartan Oskanian of parliamentary immunity.

The sides also discussed the problem of double standards used by the European structures in the recent period.

Parliamentary authorities of Republican MP Ruben Hayrapetyan have been suspended based on his petition to give up his parliamentary seat.

He says it does not matter whether that candidate is Levon Ter Petrosyan or someone else. It is important that he unite the political field in order to become a convincing alternative.

On 28 September, President of the Nagorno Karabakh (Artsakh) Republic Bako Sahakyan met the delegation of Yerevan Municipality led by Mayor Taron Margaryan.

"The charges are groundless. Everything else will be known on Monday," said Oskanian.

For the first time in years, President Saakashvili's party faces a serious challenger.

Vazgen Khachikyan, the former head of Armenia's Social Welfare Service, has been arrested.

"He [Melkonyan] spent a lifetime working in the police, and the president assessed his work by awarding him with a medal on Independence Day," Mr Gasparyan told A1+.

Mr Alexanyan believes that the charges against Oskanian cannot be trumped up.

September 28 is the day when Ruben Hayrapetyan, a lawmaker from the ruling Republican Party of Armenia, was to withdraw his formal petition to give up his parliamentary mandate.

The French Embassy in Armenia will host on October 1 Marc Brunet who is coming to Armenia to raise money for a local school renovation demolished after Spitak quake in 1988.

The participants considered the prospects for cooperation among CIS countries in the field of communication and adopted a complex program of events for 2012-2014 on CIS member states innovation cooperation.

The meeting was attended by representatives of the Armenian National Federation-Dashnaktsutyun and Prosperous Armenia Party.

The diplomats stressed the importance of establishing diplomatic ties between the two countries, saying it would contribute to the expansion of international cooperation and development of friendly cooperation.

Statement on the Conclusion of an IMF Staff Mission to Armenia

Prosecutor Hakob Martirosyan complained that four days is enough to study the case material.

The participants also discussed the agenda of the upcoming CSTO statutory bodies

Armenia has won another two medals at the 24th International Olympiad in Informatics that kicked off in Milan, Italy, on Sept. 23.

The two men discussed the past and prospects of Armenia-EU relations, the political situation in Armenia after the May 2012 parliamentary elections, as well as democratic and human rights protection issues.