“Chorrord Ishkhanutyun” calls the latest visit by the Karabakh negotiators to Armenia ‘sensational in a way’.
“The cochairmen of the Minsk Group of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) in fact came to Armenia to glorify Baku’s constructive position and convince us that [Azerbaijani President] Ilham Aliev is making very serious concessions,” writes the paper.
“Hayots Ashkhar” doubts the success of the latest round of so-called “people’s diplomacy” when a group of Armenian and Azerbaijani intellectuals, late last week, paid visits to Karabakh, Armenia and Azerbaijan.
“What has changed? Have the Armenian societies in Karabakh and Armenia and Azerbaijanis in Azerbaijan become closer to each other? Has the degree of animosity decreased or have the approaches become less intolerant? No, no and again no,” concludes the paper.
The editor of “Aravot” defies what he describes as “dictates” by the youth wing of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation that defines spending vacations at Turkish resorts as “unpatriotic”.
“It is understandable that the ‘visiting card’ of this party is hostility towards Turkey, Turks and all Turkish as the greatest display of patriotism. It is up to them. Let them appeal to their rank-and-file members not to spend a single penny in Turkish soil. But when they try to spread their paranoia on all the rest citizens and state bodies, the answer should be clear – a party must not dictate which billboards can be placed in our capital city and which can not.”
Meanwhile, “Hraparak” observes ‘an unprecedented trend of choosing local destinations for holidaymaking’ in Armenia this year.
“For the first time the parliament is unlikely to experience problems with gathering quorum when it meets for a special session on Friday. Of course, we are far from thinking that parliament members have taken seriously the call of [Prime Minister] Tigran Sarkisian addressed to senior state officials in general to spend their vacations and money only in Armenia and to government members in particular not to have vacations at all in conditions of the continuing economic crisis. This is most likely to be conditioned by the ‘hot political summer’,” the paper writes.
“Hayots Ashkhar” doubts the success of the latest round of so-called “people’s diplomacy” when a group of Armenian and Azerbaijani intellectuals, late last week, paid visits to Karabakh, Armenia and Azerbaijan.
“What has changed? Have the Armenian societies in Karabakh and Armenia and Azerbaijanis in Azerbaijan become closer to each other? Has the degree of animosity decreased or have the approaches become less intolerant? No, no and again no,” concludes the paper.
The editor of “Aravot” defies what he describes as “dictates” by the youth wing of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation that defines spending vacations at Turkish resorts as “unpatriotic”.
“It is understandable that the ‘visiting card’ of this party is hostility towards Turkey, Turks and all Turkish as the greatest display of patriotism. It is up to them. Let them appeal to their rank-and-file members not to spend a single penny in Turkish soil. But when they try to spread their paranoia on all the rest citizens and state bodies, the answer should be clear – a party must not dictate which billboards can be placed in our capital city and which can not.”
Meanwhile, “Hraparak” observes ‘an unprecedented trend of choosing local destinations for holidaymaking’ in Armenia this year.
“For the first time the parliament is unlikely to experience problems with gathering quorum when it meets for a special session on Friday. Of course, we are far from thinking that parliament members have taken seriously the call of [Prime Minister] Tigran Sarkisian addressed to senior state officials in general to spend their vacations and money only in Armenia and to government members in particular not to have vacations at all in conditions of the continuing economic crisis. This is most likely to be conditioned by the ‘hot political summer’,” the paper writes.