Armenian MP Hakob Hakobyan's state hasn’t bettered. He is still receiving artificial respiration, Advocate Melanya Arustamyan informed A1+.

OSCE Parliamentary Assemblys Rapporteur on Nagorno Karabakh Goran Lenmarker thinks the conflicting sides can reach an agreement over the main principles by spring 2009, reports the special correspondent of Mediamax News Agency from Helsinki.

Armenian and Turkish Foreign Ministers Edward Nalbandyan and Ali Babacan met today on the sidelines of the meeting of OSCE Ministers in the capital of Finland.

President of the international relations committee of the Nagorno-Karbakh Republic National Assembly Vahram Atenesyan stated recently in Yerevan that until 1997, Nagorno-Karabakh has not been a complete member of the negotiations and it is unacceptable for Nagorno-Karabakh to become a member with the same status today.

It turned out today that the political coalition was the first to breach the order of Serzh Sargsyan to create a fact-finding group for the events of March 1 by appointing Gevorg Tovmasyan.

We, the Foreign Ministers and Deputy Minister of the OSCE Minsk Group’s Co-Chair countries – France, Russia, and the United States – call on the parties to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict to build on the positive momentum established during the meeting of the Presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan in Moscow on November 2, 2008.

French citizen Sargis Hacpanyan is on a hunger strike for four days now at the “Vardashen” penitentiary. His health is currently normal, told “A1+” press speaker for head of the RA Penitentiary Department Arsen Babayan.

“We continue to lose as long as they keep pushing Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh to concession,” declared today former Nagorno-Karabakh Republic Foreign Minister Arman Melikyan. Melikyan believes that compromises turn into concessions when the co-chairmen persuade the Armenian side to make concessions and talk about Armenians starting the war, Armenians stay silent and when they only talk about Azeri refugees and deportees.

“I get the impression that they are having trouble with our victory. They want to simply hand over the lands. Fine, let’s give them away. Let’s just give away Yerevan and get it over with,” told today to those with moods for concessions former Commander of the Nagorno-Karabakh army Samvel Babayan. He doesn’t agree with the claims that Armenians will start living better after the Karabakh conflict settlement or the opening of the border.

Newborn Garnik, son of 28 year-old political prisoner Edward Ashughyan, hasn’t seen his father yet because the authorities deprived him of that when he refused to stay at home on March 1 and went to participate in the events near Myasnikyan statue. Ashughyan found out about the birth of his child in the penitentiary.

“Bjni” mineral water factory workers wish to organize a rally to raise their voices against the problems caused by Armenian authorities. They submitted a notice to the Yerevan city council with the request to hol a rally on December 12.

Today the Armenian Parliament passed the bill on the amendments to the RoA Law on Referendum with 87 votes for, 7 votes against and two abstentions.

Today Yerevan students staged a protest action in front of the UN Office against brutal destruction of Armenian monuments in Georgia. The action was followed by a march to the Georgian Embassy in Armenia where the protesters handed a letter to the ambassador.

Yesterday the coordinator of the National Political Initiative of Armenian Volunteer Union, Jirair Sefilyan, received a letter signed by the head of Passport and Visa Division of the Police.

Co-rapporteurs George Columbier and John Prescott will present the implementation of PACE Resolutions 1609 and 1620 at the opening of a January 29 session /at 3:00 p.m. local time/.

The Armenia Marriott Hotel, Congress Hotel, Ani Plaza and other hotels, as well as the Moscow theater have repeatedly refused the rental of halls for civil society events, labeling them as “political.”

“The Miatsum National Initiative condemns the illegal and defiling action of Gyumri’s Mayor Vardan Ghukasyan against the primate of the Diocese of Shirak Bishop Michael Ajapahyan.

Though I am not a specialist of Armenian, my knowledge of the language allows me to state that the Armenian used in deciphered telephone talks of Alexandre Arzumanyan and Levon Ter-Petrosyan is much purer and cleaner than the one used in official speeches of Robert Kocharyan and Serzh Sargsyan,” political prisoner Alexandre Arzumanyan’s wife, Melissa Brown, said to A1+.

“We still have materials and they will be used for objective revelation when we are convinced that the goal-oriented investigation was aimed at revealing the crime. There is no doubt that there will be certain comments and revelations,” told “A1+” former RA Minister of Internal Affairs, member of the “Republic” political party council Suren Abrahamyan.

Evidence continued to be released today for the case against former Deputy Prosecutor General Gagik Jhangiryan, who is charged with violence against a state official. Defendants were proving that the witnesses had provided false testimonies after the release of each newspaper.

Parliamentary discussions on the law on “Referendums” are over and the bill will be put up for a vote tomorrow morning by the first reading.

The European Court of Human Rights reached a verdict today according to which the three citizens of Armenia Lavrent Kirakosyan, Arman Kirakosyan and Myasnik Tadevosyan have been subject to inhuman and degrading treatment, have had their right to a fair trial violated and an unfeasible appeal has been registered.

“Levon Ter-Petrosyan didn’t come to the scene; we brought him there,” told “A1+” intellectual, popular artist Yervand Manaryan. He brought up a couple of examples to substantiate.

French citizen Sargis Hacpanyan is still in the “Vardashen” penitentiary and has declared a hunger strike for an infinite amount of time, told “A1+” press secretary of the head of the penitentiary department of the RA Justice Ministry Arsen Babayan.