YEREVAN (RFE/RL), March 9—”The whole beauty of the document, discussed in the last five years in the Karabakh settlement lies in the fact that as a result of its implementation, Karabakh will receive an intermediate independence and security guarantees, while keeping hope of full independence in the future,” said British journalist Thomas de Waal on [...]

YEREVAN (Aysor.am), March 9–Armenia’s Prime Minister Tigran Sarkisian hosted Poland’s Ambassador to Armenia Zdzisław Raczynski on Tuesday.
They discussed bilateral cooperation between the two countries. The Prime Minister stressed the importance of the scheduled visit of his Polish counterpart Donald Tusk to Armenia. He said that the upcoming visit will contribute to strengthening Armenian-Polish relations.
Ambassador Raczynski commented [...]

YEREVAN (Novosti-Armenia), March 9—The Co-Chairs of OSCE Minsk Group on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict settlement plan to meet in March in Paris with the Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian on the threshold of their visit to the region, according to a statement released by the OSCE.
The co-chairs have already held a meeting in the capital of [...]

YEREVAN (Aysor.am), March 5–Today the Foreign Minister of Armenia, Edward Nalbandian, received Vojteck Filip, Vice-Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Parliament, informed the ministry’s press and public relations department
Greeting the guest, the Armenian Foreign Minister said, “The relations with the Czech Republic have been intensively developing over the past years, and a [...]

YEREVAN (Panorama.am), March 5 –Turkey’s Abdullah Gul released an official statement reacting to the US House Foreign Affairs Committee’s approval of resolution 252 recognizing the Armenian Genocide.
The official message, which is available on Turkish President’s official web site, states: “I consider the decision unreasonable and I regret it. It lacks respect to the Turkish nation. The [...]

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 (Novosti-Armenia), March 4–The National Assembly of Armenia will ratify the Turkish-Armenian protocols minutes after Turkey’s parliament ratifies the documents, according to Hovik Abrahamyan, the Speaker of the Armenian Parliament, on Wednesday during a meeting with the delegation of the international investment company “ARTOC Group.”
During the meeting, at the request of the guests, Abrahamyan touched upon [...]

YEREVAN (Novosti-Armenia), March 04—On Wednesday, the delegation of the Armenian parliament left for Washington to take part in the discussion of the Armenian Genocide bill in Congress, reports Armenian Public TV.
Members of the Republican Party of Armenia faction Artak Zakaryan and Koryun Nahapetyan and the head of the ARF-Dashnaktsutyun faction, Vahan Hovhannesyan, went to Washington.
The [...]

YEREVAN (Novosti-Armenia), March 2—On March 17, the Swedish Parliament will discuss the issue of the recognition and condemnation of the Genocide of Armenians and Assyrians in Turkey, writes “AZG.”
“Despite the fact that the Turkish and Azeri communities of Sweden collected about five thousand signatures with the demand to give up this step, the Swedish MPs [...]

YEREVAN (Aysor.am), March 2–A high-level delegation of the European Union led by Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos arrived in Armenia. Within the framework of the visit the delegation met Armenian President Serge Sarkisian and Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian. The meeting of the Armenian and Spanish foreign ministers was followed by a joint press conference.
At [...]