The head of Armenia’s Football Federation on Thursday condemned the Armenian Ministry of Sports for having for years refused to recognize soccer star Henrikh Mkhitaryan as one of the country’s best athletes.
Defense Minister Vigen Sargsian on Monday dismissed his predecessor Seyran Ohanian’s increasingly harsh criticism of Armenia’s government voiced during the ongoing parliamentary election campaign.
Mayor Taron Markarian again defended at the weekend the controversial construction of kiosks in a public park in downtown Yerevan which has sparked protests by environmentalists and other civic activists.
The Armenian government will significantly accelerate its ongoing reforms in 2012 to make doing business in the country easier, Prime Minister Tigran Sarkisian told RFE/RL’s Armenian service on Friday.
Vartan Minasian, the head coach of Armenia’s national soccer team, has expressed delight at a nationwide jubilation sparked by its surprisingly strong performance in the qualifying campaign for the 2012 European Football Championship.
Azerbaijan insists on the restoration of its control over Nagorno-Karabakh despite accepting peoples’ right to self-determination as one of the core principles for resolving the Armenian-Azerbaijani dispute, Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov indicated on Wednesday. (UPDATED)
Vartan Oskanian, Armenia’s former longtime foreign minister, has defended the most recent international plan to end the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and warned that its blanket rejection could make the mediators reconsider their apparent acceptance of continued Armenian control over the disputed territory.
