Politics

According to sources, the presidents negotiated for more than four hours. Though the presidents didn’t give any information about the results after the meeting, we can assume on the base of the announcements of the Minsk group co-chairmen that the co-chairmen had more expectations before the meeting. The presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan haven’t given …

Yesterday, RA Defense Minister met with the Russian president advisor on inter-regional and cultural cooperation with foreign countries, Modest Kolerov. Last time he visited Armenia was at the end of May, 2005, when he asked the officials to arrange a meeting for him with political groups and parties. But then he didn’t inform the press …

The member of the international group on issues concerning war prisoners responsible for the regional issues relating to Azerbaijan, Avez Hasanov is going to visit Armenia in May and then Karabakh. He will meet with officials dealing with issues with war prisoners. “I can’t say anything regarding this visit but we may also visit Stepanakert”, …

Although the US ambassador was invited to take part in the discussion organized in the press club yesterday with the topic of “Armenian-Iranian relations on the threshold of geopolitical changes”, however,his representatives were not there. During the discussion the participants stated that the fact that they did not accept the invitation was based on politics. …

We asked head of the “National Unity” party Artashes Geghamyan whether he would trust his candidate for ombudsman Ruben Torosyan to protect his rights, he answered: “If I get in such a condition when I can’t protect my own rights I will answer to your question. Generally I protect my rights myself, as for R. …

Yesterday Artashes Geghamyan denied the rumors that his colleague from their party, Aghasi Arshakyan stopped counting the votes during the closed election for the ombudsman’s position after his calls. But he also didn’t deny that these calls had come from the general public prosecutor’s office, i.e. the caller was Aghvan Hovsepyan: “Upon leaving, Aghasi Arshakyan …

The presidents of Azerbaijan and Armenia started the Karabagh conflict negotitaions in Rambuye, France. Before that meeting the president of France, Jacque Chirac met with the presidents of the two countries separately. But after the meeting, neither of the sides gave any information about what they had discussed during their meeting. After the meeting, only …

Many of us have great expectations about those negotiations. Some people think that those negotiations might be crucial for the resolution of the Karabagh conflict. The OSCE Co-chairmen of the Minsk Group are most hopeful. Yesterday, the negotiations proceeded through several stages. First, the President of France, Jacque Chirac had a meeting with the President …

People are expressing more and more pessimistic views concerning the Karabagh peace settlement. Neither the Armenian nor the Azeri side expects to see the two leaders come to terms regarding the principles durign the meeting. Even the two negotiatiors claim that this meeting will barely lead to a positive outcome. In general, nobody knows just …

In one of his performances, comedian Vartan Petrosyan made a good interpretation of Armenia’s ties with foreign countries-presenting it as a lottery. He took the famous phrase from Shakespear “To be or not to be” and turned it into “To play or not to play” and the answer in both cases was not in the …