In May 2011, in the midst of dramatic changes sweeping the Southern Neighbourhood, the EU completed a major review of its European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP). According to a policy of “more for more”, committed reformers in the EU’s Southern and Eastern neighbourhood would be awarded greater and broader EU support. [...]
The statement, made by the President of Azerbaijan on May 4 at the Security Council is based on lies, distortions and groundless speculations. It causes deep regret that such an august platform can be used for such base statements. Instead of reaffirming his country’s commitment to the peaceful settlement of [...]
DUBLIN, 27 April 2012 – The Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group, Ambassadors Robert Bradtke of the United States, Igor Popov of the Russian Federation, and Jacques Faure of France, released the following statement today: “The Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group (Ambassadors Robert Bradtke of the United States, [...]
A 24-member delegation of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), led by Baroness Nicholson (United Kingdom, ALDE), will travel to Armenia from 4 to 7 May to observe the parliamentary elections alongside observers from the Parliamentary Assembly of the OSCE, the European Parliament and the Office for [...]
On 24 April 2012, the day of commemoration of the 97th Anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, a Member of the Georgian Parliament, Mr. Jondi Baghaturia while making a statement in the Parliament, touched upon the most painful question for the Georgian citizens of Armenian origin – the subject of the [...]
Paris- President of the French Republic, Nicolas Sarkozy, will commemorate Tuesday, April 24, the 97th anniversary of the Armenian genocide in Paris. He will speak at 7:00 PM in front statue of Komitas, at Yerevan Garden. He will put deposit a sheaf of flowers in the name of France, accompanied by Republican guard. This is the first time in France that a President will participate, in the capacity, to the ceremonies commemorating the 1915 [...]
On Sunday, March 11, the president-candidate Nicolas Sarkozy, campaigning for presidential elections in 2012, told the meeting in Villepinte its position relative to the support of the Armenian people. Referring to a quote from André Malraux (culture minister of General de Gaulle): ’France is France when she fights for others’, he said: ”France must be on the side of peoples, of the freedom, of the justice. Today France must be with the Syrian people. the murderers must be held accountable. France will be uncompromising in defense of Israel’s security. She will defend the [...]
Nicolas Sarkozy: Elysée march 7, 2012 “France is on your side. Denial is not an opinion. It is an insult. An insult to the memory of the victims. This is a threat to the national community as a whole. An intolerable affront to the values of our country. Despite the decision of the Constitutional Council, I am not resigned. The Armenian community, like others the right to be protected by the law of the denial. So I asked the [...]
On March 7, President Nicolas Sarkozy has confirmed its intention to introduce a new law to criminalize denial of Armenian genocide. In late afternoon, the French head of state received a delegation of Armenian organizations of France (CCAF) and also, armenian ambassador to Paris Viguen Tchitetchian, Patrick Devedjian, Alain Terzian and Levon Sayan. He assured his listeners that if he was re-elected President, his intention will be to present the government a new law criminalizing denial of Armenian genocide.For him, it is unacceptable to deny on the French territory the reality of the genocide suffered by the Armenian people. Jean [...]
Today a forum took place at the French University in Armenia on the topic Whether It Is Possible to Speak of the European Culture, at which Traian Hristea, the head of the EU delegation to Armenia, was also present. “Culture is wider than merely the traditions of a given country,” [...]
By Harut Sassounian Publisher, The California Courier It appears that my prediction about Matt Bryza leaving the State Department and working as a lobbyist is coming true. After his brief stint as Ambassador to Azerbaijan came to a premature end, Bryza disclosed to the Turkish Hurriyet newspaper last week that [...]
For nearly a century, Turkey’s leaders have tried to hide the monstrous crime of the Armenian Genocide by covering up what really took place in the killing fields of the Syrian desert, then part of the Ottoman Empire. The powerful Turkish state has committed its considerable financial and diplomatic resources [...]
Turkey’s EU affairs minister has challenged France’s genocide-denial bill in Switzerland, saying such efforts have no chance of survival. Turkish EU Affairs Minister Egemen Bağış told reporters in Zurich on Sunday that a bill which was recently been approved by the French Senate and which makes it a crime to [...]
By Harut Sassounian Publisher, The California Courier Turkey’s leaders have been threateningFrancefor months with various reprisals should the French government pass a law making it illegal to deny the Armenian Genocide. Ignoring Turkish threats and blackmail, the French Parliament adopted a bill on December 22, 2011, criminalizing denial of the [...]
The French Senate is finishing the discussion on the bill banning the denial of genocides. The Senators’ opinions are quite controversial. Patrick Olier, the Minister for Relations with Parliament, stated during the discussion at the plenary meeting of the French parliament’s upper house, the Senate, on the bill banning the [...]
The French Senate has just started the discussion on the bill banning the denial of the Armenian Genocide. While the discussion takes place, the representatives of both the Armenian and the Turkish side protest outside the Senate. According to Hürriyet Daily News, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has taken [...]
European Commission, the executive body of the EU, today started a legal procedure that may lead to imposing sanctions against Hungary. According to the Bloomberg Agency, , EU is concerned first of all about the fact that the new Hungarian Constitution strictly restricts independence of the Central Bank ofHungary.Brussels also [...]
There is almost no hope that anyone of the 29 missing from among the passengers of the Italian cruise ship Costa Concordia is alive. The vessel that was making a cruise in the Mediterranean Seastruck rocks on Friday evening close to the Italian island Giglio. There were 3216 passengers from [...]
Hovhannes Hohhannisyan, the former head of the National Assembly commission for external relations, a member of the Armenian National Congress (ANC) and the leader of the Liberal Party of Armenia, said to “Yerevak” journal that our ambassadors were idle, that we had not ambassadors of political importance, but ambassadors of [...]
Today Edward Nalbandian, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Armenia also mentioned the bill banning the denial of the Armenian Genocide, passed by the French National Assembly as an achievement of year 2011 during a press conference. During a conversation with Aravot.am, we told the minister that [...]
