On November 21
st the Toronto chapter of Armenian Renaissance held a conference on the new constitution set to be voted on December 6
th. Below is a transcript of the 4-hour conference. The particularity of this conference was to delve into details of origins and content of the proposed constitution and expose concealed elements that would perpetuate oligarchic governance of Armenia. The conference itself can be viewed at
USTREAM. It is in two parts, both found at that web site. Viewers are asked to scroll to 20 minutes into part I for the start of the conference. A YouTube version is being prepared, but it was deemed important to get this out now due to time sensitivity of events in Armenia this week.
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The EU-Turkey summit was far from the European Union’s finest hour. The conclusions of the summit on Sunday were weak and mark another worrying setback in Europe’s fight to tackle its refugee crisis. Rather than put in place the concrete European response necessary to deal with the challenges we face, EU countries had hoped that a new EU-Turkey agreement could be used to help stem the flow of refugees and economic migrants arriving in Greece.
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