‘Politics’ Archives
Iran to lodge a complaint with UN about Barack Obama’s threat
Iran will lodge a complaint with the United Nations about what it sees as U.S. President Barack Obama's threat to attack it with nuclear weapons, the foreign ministry said on Sunday. Obama made clear last week that Iran and North Korea were excluded from new limits on the use of U.S. atomic [...]
Vardges Gaspar had to lie on the ground
Today, while RA Constitutional Court was hearing the claim of editor-in-chief of Haykakan Zhamanak daily Nikol Pashinyan, an incident broke out between policemen and representatives of the Armenian National Congress outside the CC building. The policemen flew into a rage seeing former political [...]
U.S. has important bilateral relationship with Armenia: White House
U.S. has important bilateral relationship with Armenia, U.S. National Security Council Spokesman Mike Hammer said in Friday briefing, commenting on forthcoming Sargsyan-Obama meeting. He also underlined importance of the issues related to Armenia-Turkey Protocols that Washington seeks to [...]
Interim Kyrgyz government guarantees Bakiyev’s security
Kyrgyz interim government guaranteed personal security to President Kurmanbek Bakiyev in return for his resignation. Interim government representative Edil Baisalov posted the text of statement on his Twitter blog. Bakiyev and his family seek to unleash a civil war in Kyrgyzstan, sowing [...]
Erdogan and Sargsyan to discuss stalemated talks
Turkish Premier Recep Tayyip Erdogan and RA President Serzh Sargsyan will discuss resumption of stalemated talks at their meeting on the sidelines of the Global Nuclear Security Summit in Washington, Turkish Ambassador to U.S. Namik Tan told The Associated Press. He also noted that returned to [...]
Conference on Armenian Genocide at Clark University
A conference on Armenian Genocide is organized at Clark University in Worcester (U.S.), newstelegram.com website reports. Scholars from U.S., Armenia, Turkey, Sweden, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Germany, Ireland and Great Britain will participate. “By putting these topics out in the public, [...]
Armenian, Russian leaders discuss possibility of meeting
RA President Serzh Sargsyan had a telephone conversation with his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev. The RA presidential press office informed that the Armenian leader once more expressed his condolences on the death of dozens of people in the recent terrorist acts in Moscow. President [...]
Nord Stream pipeline construction launched
Solemn events timed to the start of Nord Stream trans-Baltic pipeline construction took place on April 9 on Russia’s Baltic Sea coast near the town of Vyborg. RF President Dmitry Medvedev, Gazprom CEO Alexey Miller and Hans-Ulrich Engel — BASF Member of the Board of Executive Directors and [...]
FIDH member organizations in Armenia and in Turkey issue declaration
At the 37th Congress of the International Federation of Human Rights (Fédération internationale des droits de l'homme((FIDH)) and the FIDH member organisations in Armenia and in Turkey issued a declaration, which particularly reads: “We strongly believe that the protection of human rights [...]
Armenian-Turkish process dead: Heritage party
Unfortunately, official Yerevan cannot make a political decision on withdrawal from Armenian-Turkish process, Heritage faction leader Stepan Safaryan said in RA National Assembly briefing commenting on forthcoming Sargsyan-Erdogan meeting in Washington. “Nothing is unexpected. Official Yerevan [...]