Politics

Staging started

07.10.2009

Today 8-9 political parties will publish a joint statement against the Armenian-Turkish initial proposals on developing relations. The authors of this announcement will demand to exclude the provisions on creating a commission of historians, recognizing the mutual borders and several other provisions. These parties will also announce about their commitment to closely cooperate if there …

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Hence not frozen

07.10.2009

“It is time to settle conflicts according to the principles of territorial integrity, including the Armenian-Azeri conflict. We are attaching big importance to the territorial integrity, we believe the Azeri lands have been “occupied” and it is important to liberate these lands, we believe it is time to settle the conflict through dialogue, negotiations and …

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Opposition world

06.10.2009

According to well-informed sources of information, the authorities are actively working on establishing a “joint opposition” or “third power” as they have planned long before. According to their tentative scenario, they are going to unite three traditional political parties – the ARF, RAK, SDHK and Heritage parties. According to our information the SDHK has rejected …

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The use of listening to useless hearings

06.10.2009

On October 1 the parliament organized hearings on the topic of the Protocols and the Process of Developing Relations between Armenia and Turkey, during which many politicians, representatives of parties and experts expressed their opinions. However the main opposition power, the Armenian National Congress, did not take part in these hearings. “The Armenian National Congress …

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The Kremlin will lose

06.10.2009

Russia will ultimately lose in the region if the Armenian-Turkish protocols proposed by the NATO and the United States are ratified. In two months after signing the protocols Turkey will have to open the borders. It is also possible that the Armenian-Azeri border may be open too in the near future because it is not …

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Submitted to court

06.10.2009

The criminal case launched against the chief editor of Armenian Time newspaper Nycol Pashinyan was submitted to the court of first instance of Kentron and Nork-Marash communities of Yerevan. It is worth mentioning that Nycol Pashinyan and his lawyer were informed about the termination of the preliminary investigation of the case on August 5. Nycol …

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Will there be improvement?

06.10.2009

The European Union envoy in South Caucasus Peter Semneby met with journalists in Baku and in answer to a question how much are the issues of Karabakh conflict and Turkish-Armenian relations linked he said he did not want to judge the situation but hoped there would be improvement in the issue of Karabakh conflict. “I …

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Former foreign minister Vardan Oskanyan: These issues have never been so closely interconnected

06.10.2009

– Did the US state secretary Hillary Clinton want to show with her announcements during the meetings with the Armenian, Azeri and Turkish foreign ministers that her country is pressing on the processes of developing relations between Armenia and Turkey and the settlement of Karabakh conflict? – It is natural and logical that the West …

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Oskanyan criticizes but Civilitas praises

06.10.2009

“This is like a situation when you say at someone’s face directly that his mother is a bitch,” said Yavuz Baydar, journalist of the Turkish Zaman newspaper, concerning the Turkish policy of denying the fact of the Genocide during yesterday’s discussion organized at the Civilitas foundation. The Turkish journalist said that because of his political …

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There will be no order for “approval”

06.10.2009

“Here an opinion was made that our media has started a campaign for forming a positive opinion or receiving the so-called approval. There is no such thing as this kind of behavior will mean our weakness in the negotiation process,” responded President Serzh Sargsyan to the thought of Karine Danielyan, according to which it would …

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