YEREVAN (Panorama.am), March 9–Armenian President Serge Sarkisian sent a letter of condolence today to the President of Turkey Abdullah Gul for the disastrous earthquake in Turkey, the President’s press office reported.
On behalf of the Armenian people and himself, President Sarkisian extended sincere condolences to the President of Turkey and the relatives of the earthquake victims.
A [...]
YEREVAN (Yerevan Report Staff), March 5–On March 4, the Foreign Affairs Committee of the US House of Representatives voted to condemn the mass killings of Armenians in 1915 as genocide.
The vote was won by a hair of a majority– 23-22. Despite the condemnation, which was a repeat of a 2007 passage, it is unclear whether [...]
YEREVAN (RFE/RL), March 4–The US State Department has again pointedly refrained from urging US lawmakers not to pass a resolution that terms the World War One-era Armenian massacres in Ottoman Turkey a genocide and is fiercely opposed by Ankara.
The Foreign Affairs Committee of the US House of Representatives is expected to discuss and vote [...]
YEREVAN (Novosti-Armenia), March 3—Spain is ready to assist in the deepening of the Armenia-EU relations, according to Migel Angel Martinos, the Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, during his meeting with the president of Armenia Serge Sarkisian.
“Today we have an intensive agenda of dialog, and Spain, during its presidency in the EU, is ready [...]
YEREVAN (RFE/RL), March 1–The presidents of Armenia and Georgia pledged to promote economic “integration” between their nations and reviewed broader bilateral ties during weekend talks held in the Georgian city of Batumi.
Sarkisian traveled to the Black Sea port city on what his office called a “private visit” ahead of the reopening on Monday of Georgia’s [...]
BY ANTRANIG DEREYAN
VANCOUVER (Armenian Weekly), February 26–The men’s alpine giant slalom kicked off from Whistler, Creekside with only the top 30 skiers advancing for a chance at a second run and a medal.
Austrian skier Marcel Hirscher had the honors of going first and finished with an impressive time of 1:17.48. (He would finish the day [...]
VANCOUVER, Canada (Armenian Weekly), February 19—Armenia’s athletes are all in the same boat, trying to do their best, but with little exposure and much doubt from the outside nations on their abilities.
Kristine Khachatryan and Sergey Mikayelyan, both cross-country skiers, have already completed their respective events.
Khachatryan, in the ladies’ 10 km. free, started her race in [...]
YEREVAN (RFE/RL), February 19–A senior member of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun) opposed to the fence-mending agreements with Turkey expects a key parliament committee headed by him to approve of the two protocols signed between Yerevan and Ankara last year.
Armen Rustamian told a press conference in Yerevan on Thursday that “as things stand now” the [...]
YEREVAN (PanARMENIAN.Net), February 18–The Armenian-Turkish Protocols will be debated in the committee on external relations of the Armenian National Assembly on February 19.
“We offered the parliament speaker to develop a procedure of preliminary discussions,” Armen Rustamyan, chairman of the committee, said.
He emphasized that the discussions will be maximally transparent. “According to the National Assembly charter, international [...]
YEREVAN (RFE/RL), February 17–Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian has warned Azerbaijan against disregarding a basic principle of the peace plan proposed by international mediators in settling the long-running conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh, which enables the people of the disputed region to decide their future status.
Nalbandian’s remarks came in response to Azerbaijani Foreign Minster Elmar Mammadyarov’s statement [...]