Politics

USA doesn’t recognize

27.04.2010

In an interview to the Voice of America, the Deputy Department Spokesman Mark Toner stated that the official Washington does not support any of the parties in the NKR issue settlement and highly assesses and supports the efforts of the OSCE Minsk group. Toner refuted the accusations voiced by the Azerbaijani side and said that …

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We shouldn’t exclude the Kyrgyz scenario

27.04.2010

– Mr. Demirtchyan, the PPA is also included in the ANC and it clearly states that its main goal is the change of government. In this regard, what lessons do you learn from the events in Kyrgyzstan? – First of all the Armenian government should draw a conclusion by reviewing the events in Kyrgyzstan. As …

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Decease of the soccer diplomacy

27.04.2010

Yesterday the RA President Serzh Sargsyan summoned a coalition session, during which, according to our information, it was decided to suspend or recall the Armenia-Turkey protocols from the RA National Assembly till the moment that Turkey brings up the deadline of ratifying those in its parliament. As of yesterday no information was provided on this. …

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Decision to be made

27.04.2010

The American co-chairman of the OSCE Minsk group Robert Bradke said in Baku that the purpose of his visit to Azerbaijan was to return the missed opportunities over the issue of Karabakh through the talks with president Ilham Aliyev and foreign minister Elmar Mamediarov. He also said that the concrete date and format of the …

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Former defense minister Vagharshak Harutyunyan: The Armenia-Turkey process was obliged from outside

27.04.2010

– According to your opinion, what issues were solved as a result of the meeting with participation of Erdogan, Sargsyan and Obama in Washington? – The purpose of the meeting was the ratification of the protocols and opening the Armenian-Turkish border. This is the first phase of the entire process; the second phase is the …

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Russia and the US don’t want it

24.04.2010

“Every country has solid interests in Azerbaijan. For the US it is a component of the Eastern policy. It is a non-islamic country. Certainly it is not a counterbalance to Iran in the region, but it is one of the many stones for the US to keep the balance. Azerbaijan is Turkey’s ally Turkey is …

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Criminals give present to the police

24.04.2010

On Saturday there was a scuffle in participation of 60-70 armed young people in the vicinity of the military academy after Vazgen Sargsyan. Fortunately there were no victims and injured people in the place because the police had been informed about the scuffle and arrived in the place, where they found armaments. There have been …

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Possibility excluded

24.04.2010

The Turkish foreign minister Ahmed Davutoglu said yesterday before leaving for Baku that Turkey would not reopen the border with Armenia as far as the protocols on regulating the relation between Armenia and Turkey are not ratified. “Opening of the border without ratifying the protocols is out of the agenda of Turkey,” said Davutoglu. He …

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Non-political conflict within the coalition

24.04.2010

On April 17 there was a scuffle between two groups of people in the vicinity of the military academy after Vazgen Sargsyan in the fifth district of Nork community in Yerevan. The police and the special security forces arrived in the place and the young people were not able to shoot and injure each other. …

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“The standpoints of Levon Ter-Petrosyan and Serzh Sargsyan regarding the NKR conflict resolution mostly resemble”

24.04.2010

– Right after the Washington meeting the Prime Minister of Turkey Rejep Tayip Erdogan stated if the Armenian military forces draw back from the neighboring territories of the NKR the normalization of the Armenia-Turkey relations will speed up. And the President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev stated that the Armenia-Turkey process is up to the two …

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