Politics

Yesterday on the webpage of the Civilitas Foundation, headed by the former foreign affairs minister of Armenia Vartan Okanyan an article was posted dedicated to the recent developments of Armenian-Turkish relations, entitled “Call the things in their names.” According to the article the evaluation of the current state of the Armenian-Turkish relations should be built …

According to our information, the rumors that the head of the president’s administration Michael Minasyan, who is the son-in-law of the president, may resign are true, and it is not excluded that he may resign in a couple of days. According to our sources of information, the reason is not a conflict but the fact …

Member of the ANC central office Arman Grigoryan thinks that during the PACE plenary session in the end of September there will not be big opportunities to include Armenia’s issue in the agenda. “After the adoption of the resolution 1677 Armenia was taken out of the special monitoring regime and returned under the normal regime …

The second president of Armenia Robert Kocharyan visited Karabakh on the 18th anniversary of Karabakh’s independence. He answered only one question. In answer to a question whether Robert Kocharyan is still in politics he said that it was impossible to leave.

“The provision on recognizing the borders in the protocol on developing diplomatic relations limits our opportunities to demand territories form Turkey in the Future,” said scientist of Eastern sciences David Hovhannisyan to our newspaper. He has been a member of the Armenian-Turkish reconciliation committee in the past. “What is more important for us? The factor …

– In the protocol on establishing diplomatic relations between Armenia and Turkey there is a provision on “mutual and multilateral responsibilities to respect the territorial integrity and borders firmness”. We wander whether it is not a precondition or indirect demand toward Armenia to recognize Azerbaijan’s territorial integrity. – The provision on territorial integrity is included …

– In your opinion is the activation of the Armenian-Turkish relation of the recent days and the issue of the opening of the border connected with the NKR conflict? Based on these developments, can we assume that in the near future serious changes are expected in the negotiation process of the NKR conflict? – If …

“Everything is good, the Armenian diplomacy does everything right and there is no need to worry.” Yesterday’s press conference of the foreign affairs minister of Armenian Edward Nalbandyan can be concluded in this one sentence. “One year ago the president of Armenia initiated a qualitatively new process of relations with Turkey, as a result of …

“There is no wisdom in the abundance of words,” the people have been warning about this for over several thousand years. But nothing is changed as a result. The key issues of the social life get lost in the background of freedom of speech. The main theme of these days is the Armenian-Turkish relations. The …

Yesterday at about 4p.m. in a surprise move, Khachatur Sukiasyan, a fugitive businessman and opposition parliamentarian, surrendered to Armenian law-enforcement authorities to face trial for his alleged role in last year’s post-election violence in Yerevan. He was kept at the premises of the Prosecutor-General for two hours before he was taken under detention and taken …