Politics

During the ‘European Literature in Turkey: Turkish Literature in Europe’ cultural project, organized in Istanbul, Nobel Prize-winning German writer Günter Grass stated that ‘it is time for Turkey to apologize to the Armenians for the massacres of 1915. In his speech at the meeting Günter Grass, world-famous German author and playwright, mentioned that Turkey is …

“There no mutually acceptable variants for the solution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict that would bring the two sides closer to each other,” Russian political scientist and expert on Caucasus issues Sergey Markedonov told Tert.am. According to him the Armenian-Turkish are not only declarations but legally binding documents. He believes that the Armenia-Turkey relations a lot …

Head of the Armenian delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, Mr. Davit Harutyunyan addressed a letter to MR. Thorbjorn Jagland, Secretary General of the Council of Europe and Mr. Mevlut Cavusoglu, President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, by which he alludes the attention of the mentioned people …

We, the Armenians, are very interesting people. Hardly there are other countries in the world where a shoe-maker may agree to be minister without thinking twice if he is offered to be so. In our country most of people are like that because by saying minister they first of all imagine a large office, soft …

“The issue of opening the border between Armenia and Turkey is the business of these two countries and no one should interfere this process,” said the Azeri president Ilham Aliyev yesterday. He also said that the international community’s efforts to open the borders have only one purpose to enable “Armenia breath easily.” Aliyev’s announcement was …

Since the presidential election 2008 and the time when Vazgen Manukyan became the chairman of the Public Chamber it is almost impossible to talk to him. Yesterday he visited the 10th summit of the Information technologies enterprise together with former member of his party and incumbent prime minister Tigran Sargsyan, and we could hardly ask …

Yesterday at around midnight by Yerevan time the meeting of President of the Republic of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan with the US President Barack Obama ended in Washington DC. As of yesterday no information was provided about the meeting. The meeting lasted 45 minutes. Most probably today Sargsyan will meet the US State Secretary Hillary Clinton. …

During a recent visit to Tavush region president Serzh Sargsyan commented on the rumors concerning the possible resignation of prime minister Tigran Sargsyan. “These rumors are baseless. I am not going to replace the PM or the government. There were such rumors when the economy was falling by 15, 16 and 17 per cent, and …

At request of the Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayip Erdogan yesterday the President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan accepted the special envoy of Turkey Feridun Sinirlioglu. The latter passed on verbal and written messages of the Turkish Premier and the Foreign Affairs Minister to President Serzh Sargsyan. President Sargsyan stated that Armenia expects Turkey to take …

“The reason why we have chosen Yerevan for our conference is that we are following the processes here. And if we are following it means that not everything is OK here. Here there is stuff to do. The justice system in Armenia doesn’t conform to international standards. Here there are issues connected with human rights,” …