By Raffi Hovannisian YEREVAN–The second anniversary of blitzkrieg between Russia and Georgia underscores the unresolved geopolitical undercurrents in this region among the seas.  Landlocked by the forces of history from the Caspian, the Black and the Mediterranean, Armenia’s pivotal position remains encircled by a neighborhood in strategic turmoil. The inherent jeopardy flowing from Turkey’s now [...]

YEREVAN (Combined Sources), June 14–Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian visited the Georgian capital Tbilisi today and met with his Georgian counterpart, Grigol Vashadze. At their meeting they discussed the situation in Abkhazia and South Ossetia. “We have informed our Armenian colleagues of the situation in the occupied regions,” Vashadze said, stressing that the sides also [...]

YEREVAN (Tert.am), May 27–”I do not believe that Azerbaijan will choose the way of military revenge. Economic growth is being registered in Azerbaijan, and military operations are the most unproductive means of investments. That’s why I look at it as a bluff typical to the Caucausus,” Konstantin Zatulin, deputy of the Russian State Duma said. [...]

YEREVAN (PanARMENIAN.Net), May 19– The speaker of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic parliament Ashot Ghulyan met with former Special Representative of the OSCE Secretary General, researcher at the Institute of Democracy and Cooperation in Paris, Mr. Maurice Bonnot, who arrived in the republic to observe the upcoming parliamentary elections. “These elections are of keen interest to me. The [...]

Raffi K. Hovannisian, the first foreign minister of Armenia and the founder of the Heritage Party, delivered the following keynote address during the 2nd Annual PFA Forum at Georgetown University in Washington on March 1. *** It is an honor to be back at Georgetown University, a very important university in a very important capital [...]

BY RAFFI K. HOVANNISIAN YEREVAN, March 23—A couple of sentences in a non-binding resolution, passed by the House of Representatives foreign affairs committee on March 4, softly reaffirming the genocide of the Armenian people and the forcible dispossession of their homeland has got Turkey threatening the world, the US administration complicitly trying to hush Congress [...]

YEREVAN (RFE/RL), March 3–Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian welcomed on Tuesday the reopening of Georgia’s main border crossing with Russia and confirmed reports that a Russian-Georgian agreement to that effect was reached under Armenian mediation. “I can confirm that [Russian-Georgian] negotiations indeed took place in Armenia and with Armenia’s mediation,” Nalbandian told journalists. “And now that [...]