Singer Shushan Petrosyan was pleased with the decision of the Public TV not to participate in the Eurovision Song Contest 2012. The singer said about that during a press conference at Hayeli (mirror) Club today, “I was at Dorians’ concert yesterday and I was saying every moment, ‘Thank God, these [...]
On March7, inaccordance with the earlier agreement with the authorities of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic, the OSCE Mission held scheduled monitoring of the Nagorno Karabakh and Azerbaijani armed forces’ contact-line near thevillageofSeysulan, Mardakert region. From the positions of the NKR Defense Army, the monitoring was held by Field Assistants of [...]
“The main obstacle in the way of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict settlement is the fact that Armenia has occupied the substantial part of the Azerbaijani territory,” this was the question Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian was asked by Austrian Der Standard newspaper. And in response to that question he said almost [...]
“As we know, officials in Baku have talked about ‘more active role of’ the EU more often and rather emotionally. In that sense, the part concerning the Karabkah issue in Conclusions on South Caucasus draft doesn’t meet the Azerbaijani expectations, at first sight,” Vahram Atanesyan, the head of the Nagorno-Karabakh [...]
Today Edward Nalbandian, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Armenia, presented in detail during a press conference what achievements they had had in the foreign relations in year 2011, mentioning from a new impetus given to the partnership with China, Japan and India to the statement made [...]
“Next year it is possible that only Russia out of the Minsk Group co-chair countries will change its position on the peaceful settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict”, said Richard Giragosian, the director of the Armenian Center for National and International Studies during a press conference at “Henaran” (support) club today. [...]
According to the comment of Vahe Sargsyan, an expert of “Mitk” (idea) analytical center, Turkey and Azerbaijan take such steps in Georgia and particularly in the south of that country that will result in that region suffering the same fate as Kosovo, Northern Cyprus, Western Armenia and a set of [...]
Amnesty International reiterates its call for the immediate release of Jabbar Savalan after today’s decision of Azerbaijan’s Supreme Court to uphold the conviction of the twenty year-old political activist. “Azerbaijani courts have once again demonstrated that there is no rule of law in Azerbaijan when political interests are concerned” said [...]
No progress in the next two years The Armenian-Azerbaijani contacts that have become rather tense recently make uneasy not only the societies of the two countries, but also the international organizations, although the latter do not take rather tangible steps to cut our neighbors down to size and put a [...]
The European functionaries, even several analysts in Armenia think that it can
“If Ankara wants to contribute to the Nagorno-Karabakh settlement process, it has to normalize its relations with Yerevan”, said Sabine Freizer, the Director of the Europe Program of the International Crisis Group, in Baku at the end of last week. Stressing that Ankara has interesting ideas concerning the resolution of the conflict, Madam Director also added, “But Turkey has border problem with Armenia. If Turkey wants to make any contribution to the negotiations on Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, to join the process from positive aspect, it first of all should normalize the relations with Armenia.”
