By Alexander Tagvoryan YEREVAN, September 3–The settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh problem will help to establish stability in the South Caucasus, thinks the Foreign Minister of Turkey Ahmet Davutoglu. “The settlement of the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict is needed to turn the Caucasus into a peaceful, stable and prosperous region,” he said during his visit to the [...]
By Alexander Tagvoryan YEREVAN, September 2–Azerbaijan confirms that yesterday two Azerbaijani soldiers died as a result of the armed confrontation on the contact line between Nagorno Karabakh (Artsakh) and Azerbaijan. Azerbaijan’s Defense Ministry said that on August 31, there was an organized diversionary attack from the Armenian side, as a result of which two Armenian [...]
By Adonia Agayan YEREVAN, September 2 — The Brussels-based organization European Friends of Armenia (EuFoA) calls on the EU countries to unanimously confirm their support for the Nagorno Karabakh peace negotiations and to vote against the UN resolution submitted by Azerbaijan. “It is expected that at the UN General Assembly opening on September 9 three [...]
By Victoria Vardanyan YEREVAN, September 1– At approximately 6:30 am Yerevan time on Tuesday the Azerbaijani military made another attempt to cross the contact line along Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh). Azeri armed forces tried to storm the village of Verin Chailu, Artsakh. The Armenian army detected the attempt in time and without delay pushed the enemy back [...]
By Victoria Vardanyan STEPANAKERT, August 30– Azerbaijan is once again committing a grave error by introducing the UN General Assembly resolution on Artsakh (Karabakh), said the President of Armenia, Serge Sarkisian during his visit to Artsakh on Sunday. According to Azerbaijani media, Baku will initiate the vote on a draft resolution entitled “Respect for international [...]
By Alexander Tagvoryan YEREVAN, August 24–On August 31, the OSCE Mission will conduct regular monitoring of the contact line between the armed forces of Nagorno Karabakh (Artsakh) and Azerbaijan, south-east of the village Kuropatkino in the Martuni region of Karabakh. The monitoring was agreed to by the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic authorities. The observation mission from the [...]
By Victoria Vardanyan YEREVAN, July 22– President Serge Sarkisian met with young representatives of the Armenian diaspora in Sevan, who arrived in Armenia with the movement “Miasin” and the program “Ari Tun.” The representatives were interested in the settlement of Nagorno Karabakh conflict. The president said that the negotiations on the settlement of the Nagorno [...]
By Victoria Vardanyan YEREVAN, July 19– The Heads of Delegation of the OSCE Minsk Group — Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner, and Deputy US Secretary of State James Steinberg — issued a joint statement on the status of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict peace settlement on Saturday. They met on the margins [...]
YEREVAN (RFE/RL), April 21–President Serge Sarkisian discussed the latest developments in Turkish-Armenian relations and the Nagorno-Karabakh peace process with his Russian counterpart, Dmitry Medvedev, during a brief visit to Moscow on Tuesday. The two men made no public statements after holding talks in Medvedev’s Gorki residence outside the Russian capital. The Kremlin said only that [...]
BAKU (Trend), February 24—The European Union’s Special Representative to the South Caucasus arrived in Azerbaijan Tuesday where he said time was running out for Armenia and Azerbaijan to hammer out a final peace accord on Karabakh. Speaking to reporters at a press briefing in Baku, Peter Semneby said it was possible to hope for progress [...]
