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OSCE Head of Yerevan Office Sergey Kapinos: “Karabakh Should Be Engaged in Talks”

johnmeld — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 01:59:02 +0000

Head of the OSCE Yerevan Office Sergey Kapinos today refuted the statement of Goran Lenmarker, Special Representative of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly for Nagorno Karabakh, who said Nagorno-Karabakh should not be engaged in the talks as a conflicting side. At first Kapinos said Lenmarker could not have made such a statement. After [...]

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Turkey’s FM Davutoglu to raise Armenian Genocide Resolution in Turkish Parliament

johnmeld — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 23:51:20 +0000

Turkish FM Ahmet Davutoglu is due to deliver address on the developments that followed the endorsement of the Armenian Genocide Resolutions by the US House Foreign Affairs Committee and the Swedish Parliament at the Turkish Grand National Assembly today. According to CnnTurk, the Foreign Affairs Committee of Turkey’s Parliament is due to [...]

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Armenian Party Ditches Two Ministers

johnmeld — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 23:46:04 +0000

A major political party represented in Armenia’s government announced on Monday that it is replacing two of its three government ministers by other individuals who have had no ties with it until now. The Orinats Yerkir Party of Artur Baghdasarian said its governing board decided at a meeting on Saturday to “recall” [...]

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Iran Frees Armenian Aid Worker Silva Harotonian

johnmeld — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 20:14:19 +0000

Aid worker Silva Harotonian, who has been in an Iranian prison for more than twenty months, has been released, reports The Armenian Reporter. In a March 10 statement, her employer, the U.S.-funded International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX), thanked “the Government of Armenia for their engagement in securing Silva’s release.” Details of that engagement have not [...]

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Georgian Authorities File New Charges Aagainst Vahagn Chakhalyan

johnmeld — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 20:11:51 +0000

The Georgian authorities have filed two new charges against the Javakheti political activist- Vahagn Chakhalyan, who was sentenced to 10 years of imprisonment on April, 2009. The first charge is based on the failed attempt of Georgianization of the Armenian Church in Javakheti village Samsar in July 2005, the second one is based on the protest [...]

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Armenian National Assembly Speaker Does Not Take Turkish Authorities Seriously

johnmeld — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 20:08:19 +0000

Today in the RA National Assembly Heritage faction MP Armen Martirosyan suggested NA Speaker Hovik Abrahamyan either to introduce the Armenian-Turkish Protocols to Armenian parliamentarians or to recall them under recent amendments to the RA Law on International Rights taking into consideration continuing slaps by the Turkish side. “Let me disagree with you in view of [...]

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Armenia Interested in Expanding Relations With Israel

johnmeld — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 20:05:01 +0000

Armenian Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan received a non-resident Ambassador of Israel in Armenia Shemi Tzur upon completion of his diplomatic mission, press office of the government reported. Thanking the Ambassador for his work, the prime minister spoke about the great potential of the development of Armenian-Israeli relations. Tigran Sargsyan stressed that Armenia is interested in broadening [...]

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Steering clear of G-word?: Dashnaks Slam Obama Invitation as Pre-April 24 “Trap”

johnmeld — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 20:00:01 +0000

US President Barack Obama’s invitation sent to Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan to visit Washington DC in mid-April is considered by some politicians in Armenia to be another “trap” and another attempt for Obama to avoid using the word genocide in his speech on April 24 — the Armenian Genocide commemoration day. (Turkish Prime Minister Recep [...]

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Tsarukian Slams Armenian Minister

johnmeld — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:24:12 +0000

Gagik Tsarukian, a wealthy businessman leading Armenia’s second largest governing party, on Monday lambasted and branded as incompetent a government minister who stated recently that the economic crisis in the country is over. According to government statistics, the Armenian economy grew by 2.4 percent on the year in January after contracting by 14.4 percent in 2009. [...]

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US State Department Report on Human Rights 2009 in Armenia: Another Year; More Abuse By Authorities

johnmeld — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 23:59:02 +0000

Authorities restricted the right of citizens to freely change their government in mayoral elections in Yerevan. During the year authorities subjected citizens, particularly those considered by the government to be political opponents, to arbitrary arrest, detention, and imprisonment for their political activities; lengthy pretrial detention also continued to be a problem. Authorities continued to use harassment [...]

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