Politics

Recently, the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations committee postponed the confirmation of Richard Hoagland as the new Ambassador to Armenia to September. The U.S. Senate had decided to call U.S. Ambassador to Armenia John Evans back before the end of his term. The U.S. Ambassador to Tajikistan R. Hoagland will replace the current ambassador. Many say …

Things got heated up at the Baalbek residency near the east of Lebanon in the morning of July 31. Twenty people died as a result of the attacks and air firings on the part of Israeli decants. Some “Hizballah” soldiers were arrested and “Hizballah” shot about 40 missiles towards Israel from Lebanon. There were no …

Recently, the foreign affairs minister of Azerbaijan, Elmar Mamediarov said the following: “The main factors that we discussed during the previous negotiations are not out of our interests in the framework of a principle, according to which the conflict is to be settled by phases and based on international norms and regulations”. At the same …

On July 31, the U.S. Senate discussed replacing the current U.S. Ambassador to Armenia John Evans with Richard Hoagland. Hoagland has already been in the Senate and answered to questions. This time the hearings took long and hardly any senators had enough time to ask many questions concerning the Armenian Genocide.

Prime minister of Serbia, Voislav Koshtunitsa has said that they were not ready to leave Kosovo for the purpose of joining the EU. “The official approach of Serbia is the same; legally Kosovo is its integral part. Serbia doesn’t have a choice between keeping Kosovo and joining the EU. We want both of them”, said …

On July 31, president of South Osya, Edward Kokoiti said, “South Osya, Abkhazia and Middle Dnestr will be recognized soon.” He didn’t say anything concerning Karabakh. During an interview given in Moscow, Kokoiti said that peacekeepers would stay in Osya and Abkhazia until the establishment of peace, “i.e. until those states are recognized”. “We expect …

According to our information, “Gazprom” company is going to buy “Prometey Chemprom” OJSC in Vanadzor city. The debt of the company covered 100 million dram back in 2005. We don’t have concrete information on how much the mentioned debt covers now. This company is the second biggest chemical company of Armenia and has paid only …

The “ARMAT” civic/political organization, headed by former speaker of NA Hrant Bagratyan, is trying to mobilize the oppositional liberal powers. It is difficult to say whether they will be successful or not because there have been several similar attempts before and they failed due to the the ambitions of the leaders. It is evident that …

After having discussions in Yerevan and Baku concerning the fire in forests, EU special representative Peter Semnebi said that the sides should do their best not to have the same incontrollable situation again. “That issue concerns both sides. In spite of the conflict and disputes connected with that conflict, I think that the parties should …

According to “Itar-Tass”, on July 31, the Georgian government brought construction materials to Kodor to build a governmental building and houses there. Georgian president Mikhail Saakashvili has said that they had to finish the construction till the end of October. The current Abkhazian authorities don’t recognize the regional government and are against its allocation in …