YEREVAN (RFE/RL), January 28–US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has met with her counterparts from Armenia and Turkey to discuss an intensifying diplomatic dispute that has raised an additional obstacle to the normalization of Turkish-Armenian relations. Clinton met with Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu on Wednesday and Armenia’s Edward Nalbandian the next day on the [...]
YEREVAN (Novosti Armenia), January 29 — The First Minister for Wales, Carwyn Jones, recognized the Armenian Genocide, the newspaper “Azg” writes. According to the report on January 27 Jones laid a wreath at the memorial to the victims of the genocide in Cardiff, Wales. The Armenian community in Wales regarded Jones’s act as a major [...]
YEREVAN (Novosti Armenia), January 27 — On Monday the president of Armenia Serge Sarkisian signed a decree awarding a number of officers and volunteer soldiers with medals on the occasion of Army Day for their courage and self-sacrifice for the protection of their motherland, the presidential press service informs. In particular, Seyran Vantsyan was awarded a [...]
YEREVAN (Tert.am), January 27–David Fahradyan, a gymnastics instructor in the V. Brusov Physical Training and Emergencies Department at Yerevan State Linguistic University (YSLU), has been registered in the Guinness Book of World Records. An application for getting the certificate for the most consecutive gymnastic high bar giants (350) was sent to the main office of Guinness [...]
YEREVAN (Novosti-Armenia), January 27–Armenia considers Georgia to be a brotherly and friendly country and is ready to deepen relations with it, the president of Armenia Serge Sarkisian said on Tuesday at a meeting with the prime minister of Georgia, Nika Gilauri. “We are good neighbors and we should communicate often and discuss all the questions [...]
YEREVAN (Novosti-Armenia), January 26 – Nagorno-Karabakh can take part in the Armenian-Azerbaijan negotiation process, the newspaper “Azg” informs. According to the newspaper, the presidents of Armenia, Azerbaijan and Russia coordinated the preamble of the document with the basic principles of settlement of the conflict in Sochi, and this preamble can contain new propositions. An unnamed [...]
YEREVAN (Rossiskaya Gazeta), January 26 — On Monday, while in Sochi, Russian president Dmitry Medvedev, the president of Armenia Serge Sarkisian and the president of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev met to further discuss the principles for the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. This was the fifth trilateral meeting of the three presidents within the last 14 months. The first negotiations [...]
