By Vigen Margaryan YEREVAN, December 19 – The Azerbaijani side might be unaware of the dangers its accession to the UN Security Council as a non-permanent member will pose in future, according to Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute Director. As Director Demoyan noted during an interview in Yerevan, “in future, Azeri authorities will be held accountable as [...]
By Vigen Margaryan YEREVAN, December 16 — Clark University Professor Taner Akcam, the first Turkish scholar to publicly express his convition that the 1915 Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire, has commented on the adoption of the landmark U.S. House resolution urging Turkey to return confiscated church property. “It’s the essence of the Deportation Laws [...]
By Vigen Margaryan YEREVAN, November 24 – On November 23 U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Armenia John Heffern noted that the U.S. continues supporting the process of Armenian-Turkish reconciliation both on political level and on the level of people-to-people contacts. John Heffern said this in Yerevan after closing of Armenian-Turkish business conference in the [...]
By Adonia Agayan YEREVAN, November 1 — On Monday Tigran Sarkisian, the Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia, had a meeting with John Heffern, the newly appointed U.S. Ambassador to Armenia. Tigran Sarkisian highly appreciated the current stage of US Armenia relations. The Prime Minister said he was sure the activities of the new [...]
By Vigen Margaryan YEREVAN, October 24 — Armenian President Serge Sarkisian sent an urgent message of condolence to his Turkish counterpart Abdullah Gul over the earthquake that hit the Turkish province of Van on October 23. On that day the Armenian President was in Russia to hold meetings with the Russian President and other officials. [...]
By Lara Syuni YEREVAN, February 08 — The leader of PKK Abdullah Ocalan, who is now imprisoned on the island of Imrali, Turkey, addressed a statement through his lawyers, where he touched upon the Armenian Genocide in Turkey as well. According to Firat agency, Ocalan said that the starting point of the genocide against Kurds [...]
By Aram Hovakimiants YEREVAN, November 29 — A US demarche dispatched to the Republic of Armenia in the waning hours of the Bush administration alleged a transfer of arms to Iran and their subsequent use in Iraq, a diplomatic cable uncovered by WikiLeaks site on November 28 reveal. The diplomatic cable – dispatched from the [...]
