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European Parliament votes in favor of Armenia-EU Comprehensive and Enhanced Partnership Agreement

July 4, 2018 By administrator

The European Parliament has voted in favor of the consent of Armenia-EU Comprehensive and Enhanced Partnership Agreement (CEDPA) and the resolution relating to the Armenia-EU relations, MP Armen Ashotyan said on Facebook, reports Armenpress.

He informed that 573 MPs voted in favor of the CEPA’s consent, 50 voted against and 45 abstained. “598 MPs voted in favor of the resolution relating to the Armenia-EU relations, 52 voted against and 27 abstained”, Ashotyan said.

The lawmaker said that during the July 3 session the European Parliament discussed giving consent to the CEPA.

“The agreement was assessed as a success story and a historic opportunity, it was stated that it became possible and was signed under the previous government, Mogherini stated that it has no geopolitical nature and is not a confrontation.

The session also touched upon Armenia’s domestic political life, the recent developments, specific attention was paid to the peaceful and constitutional nature of the power change, importance was attached to ensuring the inclusive mechanism of reforms of the Electoral Code, the engagement of opposition in the process of reforms and the implementation of the OSCE/ODIHR recommendations. The European Parliament also expressed readiness to send observer mission in possible elections”, Ashotyan said.

The issue of visa liberalization was also discussed. Federica Mogherini linked the solution of this issue with the full implementation of Visa facilitation and readmission agreement, expressed satisfaction over the process and stated that the respective decision to launch dialogue on visa liberalization must be made by the European Council.

The peaceful and quick settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict was highlighted.

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Armenia, EU, favor, votes

With few options remaining, Mosul votes for Abadi’s coalition

May 22, 2018 By administrator

Marta Bellingreri,

MOSUL, Iraq — For the first time since the 2003 US invasion of Iraq, a Shiite coalition has won in Mosul. According to the final election results announced May. 19, The Nasr Coalition won seven seats, followed by six for the Kurdish Democratic Party and four for al-Wataniya. The majority of the local candidates on Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi’s list are actually Sunnis, and its head is former Defense Minister Khaled al-Obeidi, an aeronautical engineer originally from Mosul.

“The Nasr Coalition got the [plurality] in Mosul because it was under Khaled al-Obeidi, who has the respect of the people in Mosul,” Faisal Jeber, a commander in Mosul’s Tribal Mobilization Forces, told Al-Monitor. “The former governor of Ninevah, Atheel al-Nujaifi, didn’t have a good relationship with the government in Baghdad. Mosul’s people are pragmatic, and they understood they need to cooperate with Baghdad. They expect the government to rebuild their city and to be treated as Iraqi citizens, not as Saddamists who deserve to be punished because they are Sunnis.”

Like other Iraqis, Mosulians were less than enthusiastic about the election. “I don’t feel any enthusiasm going to vote or any hope for change,” Badia Almahal, a teacher at a primary school in Mosul, told Al-Monitor on her way to her East Mosul polling station to vote for the Sunni al-Wataniya Alliance. She is a mother of two and her husband Mohammad H., who asked that Al-Monitor not relay his family name, is an engineer. Almahal spent most of her time at home when the Islamic State’s (IS) self-styled caliphate imposed its rule on the second largest city in Iraq, and her husband opened a temporary electronics repair shop to bring in some income for the family. “The governments that have ruled Iraq in the last 15 years are responsible for IS’ takeover and the destruction of our beloved city,” Almahal said. “How could we trust them?”

Many Iraqi voters stayed at home, with a low national turnout of only 44.52% across Iraq. The national results show the Sairoon Alliance, an alliance between the Sadrist Movement and the Iraqi Communist Party, in first place, with the Nasr Coalition coming in second.

Before election day was over and in the days after, children walked the streets and men drove small vans around, busy collecting the metal frames of the countless electoral posters in the city, already putting the election behind them, ready to recycle the material. The results had been expected.

“It was clear that after Abadi’s military campaign in Mosul, defeating IS, and after his announcement last July, Abadi a chance to be successful,” Laura Silvia Battaglia, a journalist following the electoral processes in Iraq since 2010, told Al-Monitor. In a Sunni-Arab area, where people also perceive hostility from the Kurds that increased during the war against IS, Mosulians didn’t have many options left. “It was not possible for them to support former Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s coalition or other Shiite parties, in particular not [al-Fateh], the [Popular Mobilization Units], which treated Mosulians during the Battle of Mosul with the same violence as IS.” Abadi is still considered the moderate candidate among the experienced politicians. On the other hand, “it should be taken in consideration that the last members of the Baath Party disappeared from the public political debate,” Battaglia added, “even if they are the closest to Mosulians in sectarian, tribal and cultural terms, in political Saddam-related past policies.”

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California State Assembly Votes to Divest from Turkey

June 2, 2017 By administrator

California State Assembly Votes to Divest from TurkeyWith a vote of 61 to 0, the California State Assembly overwhelmingly voted to adopt Assemblyman Adrin Nazarian’s measure (AB 1597) – a movement long championed by the Armenian National Committee of America Western Region and Armenian Youth Federation Western Region – calling for the divestment of California public funds from Turkish government controlled financial instruments, ensuring taxpayer funds are no longer used in this manner to aid and abet Turkey’s century long obstruction of justice for the Armenian Genocide, Asbarez reports.
“We are truly grateful for the leadership shown by our 2016 Legislator of the Year, Assemblymember Adrin Nazarian, in introducing and guiding this unprecedented ‘Divest Turkey’ bill to a successful vote in the California State Assembly,” said ANCA-WR Chair Nora Hovsepian, Esq. “We are also grateful to the thousands of California Armenians who heeded our Action Alert to call upon their elected representatives to support AB1597 and to the AYF for initiating this Divest Turkey movement by successfully securing resolutions from all nine campuses of the University of California and for working with us side by side to educate our elected representatives and to mobilize our grassroots.”
Hovsepian continued, noting, “As home to the largest Armenian community outside Armenia, it is time for California to stand firm against funding Turkey’s ongoing Genocide denial with California State pension investments and encouraging Turkey’s bad behavior on the world stage. We have been diligently working for many months in Sacramento informing and educating our legislators on this issue, and we look forward to a full enactment of this groundbreaking legislation as it goes to the Senate and then to the Governor. We remain committed to continuing to do all we can to accomplish this goal.”
Nazarian opened California State Assembly consideration of the measure, noting that: “The Republic of Turkey’s unwillingness to recognize the Genocide and their unrelenting campaign to deny the Genocide, continues to discriminate against Armenians, Greeks, Assyrians and many other ethnic minorities who suffered at the hands of the Turkish Ottoman Government.  California’s investment in Turkish government bonds indirectly subsidizes Turkish denial of the Genocide. This bill continues California’s commitment to act appropriately against countries that have a record of human rights violations and undermine democracy.”  Other legislators who spoke out on the measure during full floor consideration include Assemblymembers Rob Bonta, Matt Debabneh, Laura Friedman, Chris Holden, and Marc Levine.
“I am humbled and grateful for my colleagues in the Assembly for joining with me to fight for justice for the 1.5 million Armenian souls who perished in the Genocide,” stated Nazarian. “If Turkey continues to fund Armenian Genocide deniers they must be financially punished.”

Filed Under: Genocide, News Tagged With: California State Assembly, divest, Turkey, votes

Iran Election: Principlists lead votes countrywide, reformists win Tehran

February 28, 2016 By administrator

A voter casts her ballot at a polling station in the capital, Tehran, on February 26, 2016. © IRNA

A voter casts her ballot at a polling station in the capital, Tehran, on February 26, 2016. © IRNA

Latest results of Iran’s twin elections show that candidates belonging to the Principalist camp are in the lead countrywide while reformists are at the helm in Tehran constituency.

According to the Iranian officials, with 90 percent of the votes counted by early morning on Sunday, 30 seats belonging to the capital city at the parliament have been won by reformist figures, though the result is still prone to change pending further vote count.

The Iranian Interior Ministry’s latest report on Sunday said a total of 3,846 ballot boxes pertaining to parliamentary elections have been counted so far containing 2.633 million votes, adding that counting ballots from remaining boxes is still going on. Also a total of over 1.506 million votes cast in the Assembly of Experts’ elections in Tehran have been so far counted with nationwide count going on in parallel.

Based on the latest count, all parliamentary seats related to Tehran constituency have been won by reformist figures with former vice president Mohammad Reza Aref leading the capital city’s parliamentary list followed by Ali Motahhari, Alireza Mahjoub, Soheila Jelodarzadeh and Elias Hazrati, all reformist figures.

Meanwhile, the initial results of the Assembly of Experts elections in Tehran Province released by the Interior Ministry show that Chairman of the Expediency Council and former president, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, and President Hassan Rouhani are leading the votes.

Current member of the Assembly of Experts, Mohsen Qomi, and Tehran’s interim Friday Prayers leaders, Mohammad Aqa Emami, and Mohammad Ali Movahhedi, stand in the third to fifth places.

Secretary of the Guardian Council Ahmad Jannati, Intelligence Minister Mahmoud Alavi and current chairman of the Assembly of Experts, Mohammad Yazdi, are 10th to 12th, while Mohammad Taqi Mesbah, who is also a member of the Assembly, stands at 16th place.

At least 33 million out of the 55 million eligible voters took part in Iran’s 5th Assembly of Experts and 10th parliamentary elections on Friday.

As many as 4,844 candidates, including about 500 women, were competing for a place in the 290-seat parliament. A total of 159 candidates ran for the 88-member Assembly of Experts. Members of the Assembly serve eight-year terms while MPs are elected every four years.

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: countrywide, Election, Iran, lead, Principlists, votes

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