Politics

“When we are talking about returning seven regions and maintaining land connection with Armenia, we should understand that in the next phase we will be faced with the issue of Meghri,” said former defense minister Vagharshak Harutyunyan when commenting on the issue of Karabakh and Madrid principles of conflict settlement. “When we agree with the …

“Turkey-Armenia rapprochement is an important issue. It’s important for Turkey, it’s important for Armenia, it’s important for the region. The U.S. supports normalization of relations and the opening of the border, and our hope remains that there will be tangible progress soon,” said Ambassador to Armenia Marie Yovanovitch. She also answered a journalist’s question regarding …

Recently in various circles the rumors about the return of the former President Robert Kocharyan were activated. They mostly discuss the version hat Kocharyan is going to return to politics through the ARF Dashnaktsutyun. According to rumors even the details of this scenario were developed. In particular, in the near future it is possible that …

– According to your opinion, in which phase is the process of Karabakh conflict settlement? – If you mean the current process of negotiations, we may assert that the Armenian party has lost. There is no provision beneficial to Armenia in the principles of Madrid. – There is another opinion as well, according to which …

Even though it is not hard to understand how the report to be published by the ad hoc in charge of investigating the events of March 1-2 will look like, after yesterday’s meeting of the ad hoc everything became clearer. During yesterday’s session the ad hoc published the main points of the report to be …

“That announcement in fact does not have any significant meaning,” said the head of the Center of National and International Studies Richard Giragossian to our reporter concerning the announcement of the Turkish Ambassador in Azerbaijan, which states that the Armenian president can go to Turkey to watch to soccer match by plane. “Even though the …

Even though the issue of appointing Vyacheslav Kovalenko as Russia’s Ambassador in Armenia has been discussed at different levels, still there are questions which have not been answered yet. Since the Russian-Georgian conflict and resulted breakdown in diplomatic relations Kovalenko’s diplomatic career in Georgia finished. Even though he is known as a very professional diplomat …

– Are you suffice with the work of the ad hoc looking into the events of March 1-2, which will take your extraordinary report and the reports of European monitoring missions as a basis for its expected report? – In our report we tried to examine the events impartially and make serious conclusions. Generally it …

According to our information, recently there was a dramatic event in the private zoo of Gagik Tsarukyan, MP and president of Prosperous Armenia party. The tiger and lion of his zoo fought and the white Bengal tiger was injured. The lion has torn the back of the tiger. Now the tiger is in the state …

– Mr. Giragossian, how will you interpret the statement of the Ambassador of Turkey to Azerbaijan Khulusi Keleji made on August 25? – In practice this statement doesn’t mean anything important. Although the government of Turkey decided to respond to the statement of Serzh Sargsyan but they did it in a lower level and in …