Politics

“We expect to be filled with joy and see effectiveness of the Karabagh peace settlement in 2006 and we are looking towards that starting in 2005.” This was the announcement made by the co-chairmen of the OSCE Minsk group during their two day visit in Armenia. Generally, all the international organizations involved in the Karabagh …

Armenian-Georgian relations are not going so well. The debate on the churches still seems to be in the center of attention. During a conference on religion held recently in Tbilisi, the representative of the Armenian diocese raised the issue of providing the Georgia’s Armenian church with a legal status and spoke about the privatization of …

The united opposition held its last meeting of the year near the Matenadaran. As president of the “Republic” political party Aram Z. Sargsyan stated in his speech, the opposition will not stop the fight and the next public meeting will take place on January 27, 2006. As expected, there were once again few people at …

President of the Republic of Armenia departed to Sochi for a short visit to meet with President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin. Everyone knew that the two presidents had to come to an agreement concerning the gas price. People were following up on news broadcasts in order to know what happened. However, we were …

Well-known Turk writer Orhan Pamuk’s court hearing began yesterday in Istanbul. Let’s recall that Pamuk is accused for humiliating the Turk people and Turkey. During an interview given to one of the Swedish newspapers in February, Pamuk had announced that during the beginning of the last century, 30,000 Kurds and 1 million Armenians had been …

“We haven’t been offered any new suggestions. We discussed only issues concerning Karabakh conflict negotiations”, said Karabakh president Arkadi Ghukasyan after his meeting with OSCE co-chairmen. He also expressed his complaints to Azerbaijan by saying: “The aggressive announcements on the part of Azerbaijan don’t support the regulation process of Karabakh and all negotiations may fail”. …

Both in Armenia and in Georgia people understand that keeping good relations between these countries is very important for both sides. The situation in Javakhk is getting worse. And one appearance is very strange: the situation gets worse as soon as there are problems between Russia and Georgia. But the last incident was the fault …

ADP is not going to take part in the coming oppositional rallies and will not participate in the formed oppositional committee. “Organizing rallies is a way to struggle, and the struggle will go on. But we think that it is not effective to organize rallies in this period. But this doesn’t mean that we are …

– You say that the opposition has never been so strong, but it doesn’t seem to be so. ADP has refused to take part in rallies and is going to be a part of “Armenia” committee, which is going to be found soon. How can you explain these contradictions? – There are no contradictions in …

As we have already informed, another event took place on December 11 in Javakhk. A big demonstration was organized by the Armenian population of Javakhk protesting against firing Armenian customs officers at the Armenia-Georgia border located in the village of Zhdanovakan and substituting them with Georgian officers. The demonstrators had destroyed some of the barriers …