Tigran Karapetyan, the leader of the People’s Party (ZhK), will run for presidency. According to the ZhK leader he has apparent privileges.

The National Unity Party (AMK) convenes a conference on September 29 dedicated to the party’s tenth anniversary.

“If the verdict of “Royal Armenia” was absent among the examined cases regarding Pargev Ohanyan’s activities, then it is absolutely legal”, said Armen Ashotyan, lawyer who represented the case of “Royal Armenia”.

“I do not know more than you do about the incident that happened to Tigran Arzakantsyan”, said Samvel Nikoyan, the NA deputy and the member of the “Republican Party of Armenia”.

“Do not make me a hero. I have just done my job”, said Pargev Ohanyan, the judge of the First Instance Court of Kentron-Nork Marash Communities to his colleagues of the RA Justice Board.

The Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe has decided to declare a "European Day against the Death Penalty", which will be held annually on 10 October. On this occasion, the Committee expressed the hope that the European Union will join the initiative as soon as possible.

Hayk Alumyan, Pargev Ohanyan's advocate, the judge of First Instance Court of Kentron-Nork Marash Communities, announced at thehearing of the RA Justice Board that the Disciplinary Commission carried out the investigations with rude violations of the law and examined those cases which limitation periods were expired, or examined verdicts which came into force legally and were not appealed by Appeal or Cassation Courts.

Judging from the behavior of judges Mher Arghamanyan, Mher Khachatryan and Armen Danielyan, it became obvious that they would leave the verdict of the First Instance Court unchanged.

“Kocharyan’s respond to Ter-Petrosyan’s speech reminds a childish argument”, said politician Aghasy Enokyan to “A1+”, commenting on Robert Kocharyan’s announcement regarding Ter-Petrosyan’s speech.

“If the first president runs for presidency, then he will become an ordinary opposition body with the results coming out of it”, said Robert Kocharyan reflecting on Levon Ter-Petrosyan’s speech on 21 September and being nominated during the presidential elections in 2008.

The RA Prime Minister Serge Sargsyan met the newly appointed Prime Minister of Russia Victor Zubkov in Moscow.

“In case Levon Ter-Petrosyan runs for presidency, the fight during the presidential elections will be ideological, it will turn to strategic combat from tactical one”, said Vahan Hovhannisyan, member of the “Armenian Revolutionary Federation” (Dashnaktsunyun).

The condition of Hovhannes Galajyan, the editor of “Iskakan Iravunk” newspaper, is gradually stabilizing. Today he will be taken home, the editor-in-chief of “Iskakan Iravunk” Hayk Babukhanyan informed A1+.

On September 24, 2007, the Supreme Council parliamentary club came up with a proposal.

The Armenian people lived under the reign of the Soviet Union for 70 years. People were content with their life.

“Independence is our victory which was won not by an Armenian soldier but by an ordinary peasant, worker, engineer, teacher dressed in military uniforms,” said ARF Dashnaktsutyun member Arthur Aghabekyan, the Chairman of the NA Standing Committee on National Security and Interior Affairs.

NKR President Bako Sahakyan highly assessed the meeting with the OSCE Minsk group Co-Chairs.

GENEVA, 21 September - UNICEF warned today that education systems in Central and Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States were leaving millions of children behind each year.

Today it was made public that the head of the “New Times Party” Aram Karapetyan had bought 25 percent of shares of “Zaruhi” LLC publishing-house.

The candidate, whom the “United Labour Party” will support, will become the RA president in 2008.

All problems concerning the “National Renaissance” party will be solved during the plenary session by the end of the year.

On 2-3 October PACE delegates will elect the judge representing Armenia in the European Court of Human Rights – electing between three candidates.

If the Republicans decide to repeal the agreement on collaboration with the coalition, the ARF Dashnaktsutyun is ready.

Today “Heritage” party MP Zaruhi Postanjian introduced in the Armenian National Assembly a bill to repeal Article 301 of the Penal Code