“Nothing is allocated to such an important field as is aviation,” announced deputy of “Justice” faction Tatul Manaseryan today. “Justice” will soon suggest setting up a commission which will deal with the issues of aviation. The commission will be aimed at the survey of the current situation in the field of civic aviation and will try to find out measures of overcoming the crisis.

These days, tragic events took place in Shoushi 18 years ago which played a significant role in the further escalation and increase of the Azerbaijani-Karabakh conflict: on May 16-17, 1988, the leadership of the Azerbaijani SSR via its emissaries and local Azerbaijani authorities of the Nagorno Karabakh Shoushi region started the deportation of the Armenian population of the town of Shoushi.

“I don’t see anything positive in the fact that a party can be dissolved within a day. This is a State system but it is upon them to decide. We need time to give evaluation of the situation.

The OSCE Minsk group co-chairs will likely arrive in Yerevan on May 25 – 30. RA Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanyan announced today that the co-chairs have already presented their suggestions to the sides in question.

RA President Robert Kocharyan will not participate in the session of the NATO parliamentary symposium which will be convened on May 26 - 30 in Paris.

After Arthur Baghdasaryan announced about his resignation Ambassadors of several Western countries expressed desire to meet head of the NA “Democratic Delegate” faction Karen Karapetyan. According to our sources, the meetings have taken place, but we failed to find out the theme of conversation with the Ambassadors.

«The coalition does not have problems of enlargement», head of the Republican party faction Galoust Sahakyan informed «A1+» today. «There is no need to introduce a new political power to the coalition. It present it consists of two parties only and we have taken up the responsibility to realize the principles of the coalition till the end. Naturally, we will cooperate with the other powers more actively»

International NGO «European Movement» awarded NA President Arthur Baghdasaryan the title of the «European of the year» in Armenia. Only three members of the Orinats Yerkir were present at the ceremony – Mher Shahgeldyan, Samvel Balasanyan and Hovhannes Margaryan.

After the resignation of NA President Arthur Baghdasaryan Defense Minister Serge Sargsyan does not see inner political crisis in the country and is not going to resort to any measures.

Two days ago Arsen Amirkhanyan, the head of the Malatia-Sebastia regional structure of the party “New Times” announced that he is leaving the party and is to take about 100 members of the party with him. According to Arsen Amirkhanyan, after that the NTP youth and women’s structures will be dissolved.

«Sergo preferred his post to his honor and that of his party. Perhaps he has been promised another post», head of the faction Orinats Yerkir Samvel Balasanyan told «A1+». He refused to speak about the Ministers who left the party in order to retain their posts saying, «I don't want to comment on the actions of the others. I speak about Sergo as he had a political post, that's why I said that. »

When Samvel Babayan, the ex commander of the Artsakh Defense Army was accused of the March 22, 2000 attempt on the life of NKR President Arkadi Ghoukasyan, TV Presenter Hamlet Ghoushchyan shot a film titled «Lord of Hell and Paradise» where he claimed that the ex commander is really guilty.

98 pedagogues are going to leave the party «Orinats Yerkir». The directorship of the regional council of pedagogues «Amiryan» will announce about the decision as well as about its reasons.

The «Justice» bloc will probably not participate in the elections of the NA President. In 2003 too they boycotted the elections considering that the Parliament is not legitimate and its President cannot be considered legitimate either.

There is nothing strange about it. They worked together and then decided not to work any more. This was the attitude of RA Defense Minister Serge Sargsyan about the decision of the OYP to quit the coalition. Mr. Sargsyan doe not see anything strange about the businessmen who left the party

The coalition was created with a special order: it was decided who would sit where and who would eat what. And as the demands of the people are changed as time goes by, a situation is created like that in Armenia today. This is the opinion of NA deputy Arshak Sadoyan about the decision of the OYP to quit the coalition.

«I don't want to remain NA President, I don't want to put forward the issue of my confidence, I was to leave and follow my own course,» NA President Arthur Baghdasaryan announced during the press conference today and pointed the course, «We are opposition».

A session of the political coalition council took place today with the participation of President Robert Kocharyan. During the session leader of the Orinats Yerkir Party Arthur Baghdasaryan informed about his decision to quit the coalition.

Today RA Minister of Urban Development Aram Haroutyunyan announced about his leaving the Orinats Yerkir Party, the press service of the Ministry informs.

According to ex NA President Khosrov Haroutyunyan, the fact that Orinats Yerkir quit the coalition does not mean that the three-party government will resign.

«Before the elections the authorities must come to an agreement about three posts: the President, the Prime Minister and the NA President. It was obvious last year that Arthur Baghdasaryan was not meant for any of the three posts by this agreement», NA deputy Shavarsh Kocharyan told «A1+».

Late in the evening the enlarged session of the political council of the party “Orinats Yerkir” adopted a decision to quit the coalition. This presupposes the resignation of Arthur Baghdasaryan from the post of the RA NA President. The decision was made unanimously: all the nine members of the political council voted for it.

“As the secretary of the party and a deputy I think that Arthur Baghdasaryan must resign and we must quit the Coalition,” claims secretary of the party “Orinats Yerkir” Heghine Bisharyan and assures that her opinion is supported by many party members and “in her opinion by Arthur Baghdasaryan.”

The Party «New Times» has made a statement today confirming their desire to find out the real reasons of the A-320 crash. The facts we have come to prove that neither the weather, nor the actions of the dispatchers, nor the versions about the problems in the VIP hall of the airport “Armenia” do not correspond to the reality and could be reason of the crash.