Politics

The recent announcement on part of the US co-chairman saying that the territories should be returned to Azerbaijan step-by-step and provide conditions for refugees to return to their places has created real confusion among the authorities. The first reaction to the mentioned announcement was the foreign ministry spokesperson’s announcement. “No issues concerning leaving territories were …

“I think that eventually the Azeri lands under the control of Armenia will be returned to Azerbaijan phase by phase, and the Azeri refugees will return to those lands,” said American co-chairman Matthew Bryza in his recent interview given to the Russian Echo Moskvy radio station when commenting on the prospective of Karabakh conflict settlement …

Yesterday the co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group Yury Merzlyakov, Bernard Fassier, and Matthew Bryza issued a statement dedicated to the 15th anniversary of the ceasefire of Armenia and Azerbaijan. "Fifteen years ago large-scale hostilities ceased in Nagorno-Karabakh, in what had become the most violent conflict on the territory of the former Soviet Union. The …

“Several months ago I could say that our government succeeds in being devoted to the principles of the peaceful negotiations process set by the mediation of the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairmen. It means that we succeeded in separating the NKR conflict resolution from the Armenian-Turkish relations. However, today I am more pessimistic about this and …

– Mr. Hovhannisyan, do you think that the recent meeting of the Armenian and Azeri presidents in Prague has brought to any positive results toward the settlement of Karabakh conflict? Following the meeting the American co-chair Matthew Bryza announced that the parties had agreed upon all the issues they had to discuss at the mentioned …

– Last week the former commander of the NKR army Samvel Babayan stated that the NKR has ceased being a military-political unit in the region as well as was segregated from the negotiation process only after Yerevan’s decision to neutralize the NKR in 1999. He also said that the third president of Armenia doesn’t have …

Following the meeting of the presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan in Prague the OSCE MG co-chairmen Youri Merzlyakov, Bernard Fasier and Matthew Bryza came up with an announcement. The announcement specifically reads: “On May 7, in the capital city of the Czech Republic, in the residence of the US Ambassador, the OSCE co-chairmen organized a …

Yesterday president of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan had a meeting with Joze Manuel Borozo, president of the European Commission, and Javier Solana, High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy. “Our meeting with president Serzh Sargsyan was rather constructive,” said Solana after the meeting. One of the most important issues in the agenda was the …

There was a scandalous announcement at the commission looking into the events of March 1 again. This announcement again came to prove that the events of March 1 were not only provoked by the authorities but also the fact that they cannot find any logical proofs and their announcements contradict each other. Specifically, the head …

During yesterday’s session of the parliamentary ad hoc commission on investigation of March 1-2 events Vahagn Harutyunyan, a senior law-enforcement official leading the separate criminal investigation into the post-election violence stated that many of the provisions of the death of police officer Hamlet Tadevosyan brought up by the fact-finding group are mildly said “senseless” and …