YEREVAN (RFE/RL), April 28- On Tuesday, during a meeting of the Security Council of Atomic Energy, President Serge Sarkisian touched on the topic of normalization of Armenian-Turkish relations. Speaking about the involvement of the country into the regional energy market, the president noted that the Armenian government has made the appropriate steps towards normalization of [...]

YEREVAN (Novosti-Armenia), April 23–The United States expects that Armenia and Turkey will continue efforts to normalize bilateral relations, according to the State Department spokesman Philip Crowley, in response to President Serge Sarkisian’s decision to suspend the procedure for ratification of the protocols on establishing diplomatic relations with Turkey. The tense relations between Armenia and Turkey started [...]

YEREVAN (RFE/RL), April 19–The United States still hopes to salvage the faltering agreements to normalize Armenia’s relations with Turkey despite the apparent lack of progress in the latest Turkish-Armenian negotiations, the US State Department said on Friday. “The process has stalled from last fall when the countries signed the protocols on normalization,” department spokesman Philip [...]

YEREVAN (RFE/RL), April 1–On April 12, President of Armenia Serge Sarkisian will visit Washington to take part in US President Barack Obama’s summit on global nuclear security. The summit will take place on April 12-13. Radio Liberty asked if Sarkisian plans to meet withPresident Obama and representatives of the of the Turkish delegation. Armen Arzumanian, [...]

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 [...]

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 (RFE/RL), March 24–Turkey’s reluctance to unconditionally normalize relations with Armenia is only facilitating a broader international recognition of the Armenian genocide, President Serge Sarkisian suggested in a newspaper interview published on Tuesday. Sarkisian spoke to the Syrian daily “Al Watan” during an official visit to Syria that began on Monday. He was asked, in [...]