YEREVAN (Panorama.am), March 30–The draft resolution on the Armenia Genocide was discussed in the House of Lords of the Parliament of the United Kingdom yesterday, according to Radio Liberty. The discussion was initiated by Baroness Caroline Cox, who appealed “to recognize the mass massacres committed against Armenians in Ottoman Turkey as Genocide.” During the hour-long [...]

YEREVAN (Tert.am), March 30–Turkey, without being named, has practically become an OSCE Minsk Group co-chair country, said Deputy Chair for External Affairs of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) Suat Kınıklıoğlu, according to Turkish Daily Star. “Today’s situation is quite different [from the previous one]. Though slow-moving, nevertheless, there is a process of normalizing [...]

YEREVAN (Panorama.am), March 30–Armenian teen Valentina Yegiazaryan, 17, died in hospital after double bombings hit the Moscow metro Monday, the Foreign Ministry spokesman Tigran Balayan told Panorama.am. According to Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations, two other Armenians Hasmik Martirosyan, 18, and Anna Porkashayan, 55, are still in hospital as of 7:00 a.m. local time.

YEREVAN (RFE/RL), March 30–Only one in three Armenians supports Armenia’s fence-mending agreements with Turkey and the possible opening of the border between the two estranged nations, according to an opinion poll released on Monday. The poll conducted by the Armenian Marketing Association (AMA) appears to be the most comprehensive survey yet of Armenian public opinion [...]

YEREVAN (Novosti Armenia), March 30–On Monday a trilateral agreement was signed by Yerevan State Medical University, the University of Southern California (USC) and the program “Competitive Armenian Private Sector” (CAPS) funded by USAID. The agreement was signed by the YSMU pro-rector Gevorg Yaghjyan, the USC Associate Dean of Globalization and Continuing Professional Development Michael Wincor, and the [...]

YEREVAN (Novosti-Armenia), March 30—The new Yerevan – Tel Aviv direct flight took place in Yerevan Zvartnots International Airport, according to the press service of Armavia. As the president of Armavia Mikhail Bagdasarov stated, the scheduled flights, opened on March 28,  will intensify contacts between the two countries and will greatly facilitate travel to Israel. Bagdasarov [...]

YEREVAN (Novosti-Armenia), March 30–Professor of Turkology at Yerevan State University Ruben Melkonyan does not believe that US President Barack Obama will use the word “genocide” in his April 24 address to Armenian-Americans this year. “Obama may use the term “Mets Yeghern” as he did last year,” Melkonyan said at a press conference on Monday. In [...]