[ last updated 14:55 ] The pro-presidential factions making up the parliament majority on Wednesday wrapped up debates on their promised reform of Armenia’s electoral legislation, failing to reach agreement on the two most important amendments.
[ last updated 14:58 ] Armenia is aspiring to and will soon be granted the status of a “special guest” at the League of Arab States, the Foreign Ministry in Yerevan announced late on Tuesday, underscoring the country’s long-standing links with the Arab world.
[ last updated 15:03 ] A roundtable discussion among politicians and economists in Yerevan produced on Wednesday a broad divergence of opinion on consequences of a possible opening of the land border between Armenia and Turkey.
[ last updated 14:54 ] “It is impossible to root out corruption with only punitive mechanisms,” Hrair Karapetian, a senior lawmaker from the Dashnaktsutyun party, tells “Hayots Ashkhar.”
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