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US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has expressed regret over a US House committee’s vote to approve a resolution recognizing the Armenian Genocide, warning of probable “damaging” impacts of vote on Turkey-US relations.
Azerbaijan on Monday disclosed what it said were the details of an updated version of a basic peace proposal by international mediators working to settle the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. Azeri Foreign Minister Elmar Mammedyarov laid out the details of the new Madrid Principles document during a joint press conference in the Azeri capital with his Slovak counterpart Miroslav Lajcak.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Friday invited President Serzh Sarkisian to visit Washington next month, in a telephone conversation that appears to have centered on the stalled rapprochement talks between Turkey and Armenia.
Ashot Ghulian, the speaker of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic’s parliament, on Friday brushed aside talk of an impending end to the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict, saying that attempts to “hasten” its settlement would be counterproductive.
Armenia’s leaders thanked Sweden’s parliament on Friday for adopting a resolution recognizing the Armenian Genocide. President Serzh Sarkisian hailed the development at a meeting with Goran Lennmarker, the visiting chairman of the Swedish parliament’s foreign affairs committee. He said “recognition of and condemnation of crimes against humanity is the best way to avert such crimes.”
The Parliament of Sweden on Thursday, recognized the Armenian Genocide after a long debate with a vote of 131 to 130. This prompted Turkey to recall is ambassador to Sweden, reported Armenian National Committee of Sweden chairwoman Suzanne Khardalian
Turkey is extremely unlikely to ratify its fence-mending protocols with Armenia at this juncture, a senior Turkish lawmaker and deputy chairman of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) said on Thursday.
In an interview with RFE/RL’s Armenian service in Yerevan, Suat Kiniklioglu said the passage of an Armenian genocide resolution by a U.S. congressional committee has rendered Turkish ratification of the protocols even “more difficult.”
In an interview with the French daily “Le Figaro” published on Thursday, President Serzh Sarkisian warned that Ankara’s reluctance to ratify them is swelling the ranks of Armenians opposed to his conciliatory policy on Turkey. “Our desire to establish normal relations is great,” he said. “However, recent statements from Turkey make me think that they will not ratify the protocols in the foreseeable future.
Azeri Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov challenged Armenia on Thursday, days after his country signaled that it is generally in support of the most recent iteration of the Madrid Principles, based on which the Karabakh peace process is being negotiated
At the Bay Area Armenian National Committee’s annual “Hye Tad Evening” banquet on at the Khachatourian Armenian Center’s Saroyan Hall, Special Guest and Armenian parliament member Raffi Hovannisian spoke on a wide range of issues facing Armenia and the Diaspora, including the Armenian Genocide resolution, the Turkey-Armenia Protocols, Karabakh independence, and the lack of democracy and rule of law in Armenia
Law-enforcement authorities in Armenia said on Thursday that they have formally closed a highly controversial criminal case against a youth activist who helped to trigger a scandal about alleged sexual and other abuse at a Yerevan school for disabled children.
The Parliament of Sweden on Thursday, recognized the Armenian Genocide after a long debate with a vote of 131 to 130. The resolution mandates Sweden to officially describe the large-scale murders of Armenians and other ethnic groups in Turkey in the early years of the last century as genocide.
The vote, last Thursday, by the House Foreign Affairs Committee to approve H. Res. 252—the Armenian Genocide Resolution—has increased Turkey’s usual banter and has sent the Obama Administration into a tailspin, in the end showing how truly uncommitted this White House and State Department are to truth and justice and how committed they are to unequivocally advancing their agenda.
The Armenian government received on Wednesday 15 million euros ($20.3 million) in external financial assistance designed to modernize Yerevan’s disused underground metro system.
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