Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad on Wednesday reportedly drew parallels between the Ottoman Turks who massacred Armenians a century ago and Islamist militants targeting innocent civilians in their bloody war against his regime.
Azerbaijan on Monday criticized the European Union for failing to explicitly voice support for the restoration of Azerbaijani control over Nagorno-Karabakh during last week’s summit in Riga with six ex-Soviet republics.
President Serzh Sarkisian thanked Germany’s leaders for recognizing the Armenian genocide in Ottoman Turkey when he met with Chancellor Angela Merkel on the sidelines of a European Union summit in Riga late on Thursday.
The Armenian military will do its best to prevent a fresh upsurge of fighting in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict zone during the upcoming European Games in Baku, Armenia’s First Deputy Defense Minister Davit Tonoyan said on Tuesday.
The Armenian government has given the green light to the construction of a new metallurgical plant which officials say will create more than 1,000 jobs and recycle industrial waste from other mining enterprises generating much of Armenia’s export revenue.
The Turkish and Azerbaijani armies began on Tuesday fresh joint military exercises in Azerbaijan highlighting their growing cooperation.
The landmark sale of Armenia’s largest hydroelectric complex to a U.S. energy company, which the Armenian government put on hold a year ago, has been finally completed, according to President Serzh Sarkisian.
The United States and Armenia signed on Thursday an economic agreement which they hope will help to expand their modest bilateral trade and facilitate U.S. investments in the Armenian economy.
President Serzh Sarkisian has praised America’s role in maintaining peace in the South Caucasus at a meeting in Washington with four influential members of the U.S. Senate, including its Republican majority leader, Mitch McConnell.
President Serzh Sarkisian will fly to Washington next week to take part in a religious ceremony to mark the 100th anniversary of the Armenian genocide in Ottoman Turkey and possibly hold talks with senior U.S. officials.
The United States, Russia and France have reacted cautiously to Sunday’s parliamentary elections in Nagorno-Karabakh, saying that they cannot predetermine the outcome of Armenian-Azerbaijani peace talks mediated by them.
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev reaffirmed Russia’s recognition of the 1915 Armenian massacres in the Ottoman Empire as genocide on Tuesday after Turkey’s angry protests against the use of the term by President Vladimir Putin.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has decried the latest recognitions by France, Germany, Austria and Russia of the 1915 Armenian genocide and criticized the United States for nearly doing the same.
Presidents Francois Holland of France and Vladimir Putin of Russia and officials representing more than 50 other states joined Armenia’s leaders on Friday in commemorating the 100th anniversary of the Armenian genocide.
The Armenian-American hard rock band System of a Down (SOAD) marked the centennial of the Armenian genocide late on Thursday with a first-ever concert in Yerevan that attracted tens of thousands of people.
An influential Jewish-American lobby group has criticized U.S. President Barack Obama’s decision to again avoid publicly using the word genocide to honor some 1.5 million Armenians massacred by the Ottoman Turks.
After a reportedly heated debate within his administration, U.S. President Barack Obama has decided to again refrain from calling the 1915 Armenian massacres in Ottoman Turkey a genocide in an annual statement expected later this week.
Russia has replaced the commander of its troops stationed in Armenia after one of them was arrested and charged with murdering the seven members of an Armenian family in Gyumri three months ago.
The Armenian government has expressed confidence that the domestic economy will continue to grow this year, disagreeing with a pessimistic forecast made by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) last week.
Gazprom’s chairman, Alexei Miller, received an Armenian state award from President Serzh Sarkisian on Thursday during a visit to Yerevan that came amid continuing negotiations over the price of natural gas supplied by the Russian monopoly to Armenia.
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