NEWS.am digest: Armenia has new president candidate?

Armenian News - NEWS.am presents the daily digest of top news as 31.01.22:

PRESIDENT

Vahagn Khachaturyan, Minister of High Technologies Industry, was chosen by the Civil Contract party as a candidate for the post of Armenian President.

In 1996-1998 Vahagn Khachaturyan was a political associate of ex-president Levon Ter-Petrosyan. Vahagn Khachaturyan held the position of advisor to RA President Levon Ter-Petrosyan.

After the revolution of 2018, he began to work closely with the ruling Civil Contract party.

On August 4, 2021, Vahagn Khachaturyan was appointed Minister of High-Tech Industry.

TURKEY

Turkey has long way spoken about establishing relations with Armenia 'unconditionally.' However, so far, inside their political circle, there are other opinions.

For example, lately, the chairman of the True Path Party (DYP) of Turkey has made a statement in connection with Armenian-Turkish relations and noted that relations should not be established without Armenia refusing Genocide recognition demand.

Cetin Ozacikgoz noted that Turkey is getting ready to normalize relations with Armenia. But he insisted that establishing relations with Armenia without the latter refusing from demand for the recognition of the Armenian Genocide is against Turkish patriotism, and the Turkish Foreign Ministry should discuss this matter well.

PACE

Armenian opposition representatives slammed the resolution adopted by PACE on the Armenian democracy.

Although, the authors noted some shortcomings, in its resolution PACE noted that Armenia has made progress in the development of democracy.

"PACE did not react in any way to the use of administrative resources and other violations recorded during the pre-election period and on election day, the illegal arrest of three opposition deputies, the unconstitutional restriction on the movement of opposition deputies, and political persecution," the opposition party noted.

In its resolution, PACE touched upon several issues, including Armenian elections.

Although the Assembly praised the national elections held in December 2018 and June 2021, PACE deplores the political climate in which the June 2021 elections were held, which was characterized by strong polarization and marred by increasingly inflammatory rhetoric from the main participants..

PACE did not bypass the topic of disinformation after the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh.

According to them, Armenia also faced an unprecedented level of disinformation and hate speech during the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.

SERZH SARGSYAN

The third President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan gave an exclusive interview and touched upon the Nagorno-Karabakh crisis.

The interview will be presented in detail in our next digest.

ERDOGAN

Fehmi Koru, a former journalist of Turkey’s Zaman daily, has stated that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan may change his current foreign minister.

Koru wrote in his personal blog that Erdogan, who makes all his decisions by considering elections, may change his ministers before the next elections.

According to the Turkish journalist, taking into account the foreign policy realities, Erdogan may replace serving Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu due to these elections.

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