By Victoria Vardanyan YEREVAN, June 29 — The Armenian Presidential Award for the global contributions in information technology was handed to Intel Corporation’s former CEO and Chairman of the Board, Craig R. Barrett by President Sarge Sarkisian. Barrett is the first-ever recipient of this award. “When introducing Mr. Barrett, people often describe him as a [...]
YEREVAN, June 28 — There is some inconsistency between the Russian and US versions of the presidents’ statement made on June 26. The statements were placed on the official websites of the Kremlin and the White House based on the statements made by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, US President Barack Obama and French President Nicolas Sarkozy on the Nagorno Karabakh [...]
By Adonia Agayan YEREVAN, June 28 — During G8 Summit in Canada on June 26 Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, US President Barack Obama and French President Nicolas Sarkozy, made a joint statement on the Nagorno Karabakh conflict, the White House said. “We, the Presidents of the OSCE Minsk Group’s Co-Chair countries–France, Russian Federation and the [...]
By Alexander Tagvoryan YEREVAN, June 28–UK Ambassador to Armenia Charles Lonsdale says that the need for a peaceful settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict is once more accentuated by the incident that took place last week. On June 18, late in the evening, an armed reconnaissance group of Azerbaijan soldiers passed the border with Nagorno [...]
YEREVAN, June 28–Answering the journalists’ questions after the G20 summit in Toronto, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan evaded a question about the normalization of relations with Armenia and once again hinted at the Karabakh issue. As to the concrete moves in the Armenian-Turkish reconciliation process, Erdogan noted that in the course of the G20 [...]
YEREVAN (Public Radio of Armenia, Yerevan Report), June 26–US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will visit Ukraine, Poland, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia between July 1-5, the State Department said on Friday. The visit will mark the second time that a senior head of state from the United States has come to Armenia. Former Secretary of [...]
YEREVAN (Novosti-Armenia), June 26–A new school for refugee and local children was opened in the village of in Armenia’s Syunik region in connection with the World Refugee Day, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Armenia informed. World Refugee Day was established in 2000 by the United Nations General Assembly and is celebrated [...]
