Politics

Time to collect stones

09.09.2008

And so as experts and journalists fairly mention the complementary politics preached by Vardan Oskanyan on part of Armenia came to its logical ending. There is no way to maneuver any more. The question is set quite directly. We are either with Russia or against. Indeed, we have always been with Russia since the times …

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Meeting

09.09.2008

Yesterday the Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan made a speech about the foreign policy of Armenia over the meeting with Armenian ambassadors and permanent representatives of the republic to international organizations. In a wide-ranging foreign policy speech made public late Wednesday, he also indicated that Armenia will continue to seek simultaneously good relations with Russia, the …

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Disappointing influence

09.09.2008

Yesterday president Serzh Sargsyan accepted the secretaries of the Collective Security Treaty Organization member countries to participate in the CSTO secretaries’ committee session. Serzh Sargsyan assures that such dangers as possible aggression, drug trafficking, illegal migration and terror don’t let any doubt that the mentioned organization has certain issues to discuss seriously. Concerning the South …

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Ombudsman Armen Harutyunyan: “It is a bad thing”

09.09.2008

– Mr. Harutyunyan, in his latest interview Levon Ter-Petrosyan published the resolution of the head of Kentron and Nork-Marash court Zhora Vardanyan on recording Alexander Arzumanyan’s phone conversations on February 19. He also announced that Zhora Vardanyan had made such decisions related to other members of the campaign headquarters as well. Do you think such …

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“The U.S., Which Is Immensely More Powerful Than Russia, Is A Close Friend Of Armenia”

06.09.2008

– Many people in Armenia and outside the country think that the Russian-Georgian crisis will "kill" the complementary foreign policy that Armenia was pursuing for the last 10 years and Yerevan for this time will have to make a firm "choice" between the Russia and the West. What is your assessment? – I do not …

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In between “lifetime enemy” and “lifetime friend”

06.09.2008

Yesterday the Turkish prim-minister Mr. Erdoghan announced that president of Turkey Abdullah Gul will visit Armenia to watch to soccer match between the Armenian and Turkish national teams on September 6. After this announcement many representatives of the Turkish parliamentarian majority Justice and Development party applied to the head of the mentioned faction to get …

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Toward football

06.09.2008

After the alleged crisis during the past 2-3 weeks we still don’t know whether there was crisis in the country during that time or no. For example, now when I am writing my article I am thinking whether I will be able to find petrol at any gas station when going home because on my …

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“For the sake of the principle of survival”

06.09.2008

– Mr. Hovhannisyan, you and many other experts predicted the Georgian-Ossetian war. It turns out that Armenia had enough time to find alternative ways as well as find new angles of negotiations of Karabakh conflict. – Of course, yes, if we had a realistic foreign policy and enforced our own decisions and if we didn’t …

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Gul has not decided yet

06.09.2008

After taking interview from the president of Armenia Serzh Sargsian the Turkish newspaper radical interviewed the Turkish president Abdullah Gul. In answer to a question whether the Turkish president thinks that the opportunity of watching the football play between the Armenian and Turkish national teams is an opportunity for developing relations between Armenia and Turkey, …

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Leaving for Sochi

06.09.2008

President of Armenia Serzh Sargsian will pay a business visit to Sochi on September 2, where he will have a meeting with the Russian president Dmitri Medvedev. During the meeting the presidents will discuss issues concerning the future development of the Armenian-Russian strategic cooperation, as well as issues concerning the upcoming presidency of Armenia at …

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