Posts Tagged ‘At The Focus’
Obama hasn’t forgotten, but…
Why isn't US President Barack Obama recognizing the Armenian Genocide Resolution 252 when he had promised recognition during his electoral campaign? This was one of the questions addressed to US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton who was invited to Vladimir Posner's television show on Russia's [...]
Information on bomb in RA revenue committee false
Information on bomb in the RA Public Revenue Committee was a hoax. At the moment the Committee employees are back to work. No bomb was found as a result of search operations. March 23, Yerevan Police Station received information about the bomb in RA Public Revenue Committee and the workers were [...]
Spanish government does its utmost not to approve Genocide bill
Spain’s government does its utmost for the parliament not to approve the bill on Armenian Genocide in 1915 by Ottoman Empire, Spanish ABC newspaper reports. According to the daily, “government fully acknowledges that Genocide recognition will provoke negative response of Turkey that is one of [...]
Tu-204 airliner prang near Domodedovo airport
March 22, at 2:35 Moscow time Tu-204 airliner heading from Hurghada (Egypt) to Moscow prang in forest shelter belt, 1 km from the runway of Domodedovo airport. Seven people were wounded, health state of two is esteemed as grave, RBC reports referring to the RF Emergency Situations Ministry [...]
DurDe: Erdogan’s threat calls to mind the Ottoman policy of 1915
The Initiative for "Say Stop to Racism and Nationalism" (DurDe) of Turkey has slammed the statement, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan made on March 16, during an official visit to London. “The expressions suggest that the Prime Minister, who has been infuriated by the votes of the [...]
If Turkey wants to step over its past, it should not overreact to its mention
“If you want an ugly reminder of the past to stay there, you shouldn't throw a fit whenever someone brings it up. This is a lesson Turkey ought to learn sometime,” reads Tim Giannuzzi’s article in Calgary Herald. Being one of free and well-developed democratic states in Muslim world, [...]
Turkey has no moral right to impose any conditions: RA President
RA President Serzh Sargsyan delivered an interview to Euronews TV channel Q.: President Sargsyan, with 23 votes in favour of the resolution and 22 against, the Foreign Affairs Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives has decided to declare that the 1915 massacre of over one million [...]
U.S. congressional panel recognize as genocide 1915 Massacre of Armenians by Ottoman Turks
The mass killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks beginning in 1915 remains an emotional issue. A major U.S. congressional panel has described the massacre as genocide. In this report from Washington, Senior Correspondent André de Nesnera looks at the ramifications of the congressional action for the [...]
Turkey is more active than Minsk group
Hanrapetutyun (Republic) Party Chairman Aram Sargsyan sees a linkage between Armenian-Turkish relations and Karabakh conflict and claims that the first is the logical consequence of the second. He presented his stance on the issues during an interview with A1+. -Mr. Sargsyan, Russia's Foreign [...]