Only one in three Armenians supports Armenia’s fence-mending agreements with Turkey and the possible opening of the border between the two estranged nations, according to an opinion poll released on Monday.
Turkey will not stop linking the normalization of its relations with Armenia to a Nagorno-Karabakh settlement, a retired Turkish army general who was involved in Turkish-Armenian reconciliation initiatives said on Thursday.
Armenia’s economic recovery accelerated in February, with Gross Domestic Product increasing by 3.1 percent in the first two months of this year, the latest government statistics show.
A key Council of Europe watchdog on Friday called for a “public inquiry” into the 2008 post-election unrest in Yerevan and expressed concern about reported ill-treatment of dozens of opposition members arrested by the Armenian authorities at the time.
A senior U.S. official has reiterated Washington’s calls for Armenia and Turkey to quickly and unconditionally ratify their U.S.-brokered agreements to normalize bilateral relations. (UPDATED)
Underscoring its status as Armenia’s leading European donor, Germany has announced its intention to provide up to 100 million euros ($137 million) in fresh loans aimed at fostering the country’s economic development.
The United States has again criticized the Armenian authorities’ human rights record, saying that they have continued to stifle dissent, manipulate elections, tolerate police brutality and restrict judicial independence over the past year.
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 Armenia’s stalled rapprochement with Turkey.
President Serzh Sarkisian has suggested that Turkey will not unconditionally normalize relations with Armenia anytime soon and again threatened to annul the universally welcomed agreements signed by the two nations last October.
The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe on Monday criticized trials of Armenian opposition members arrested following the 2008 presidential election, saying that at least some of them were not fair and exposed “shortcomings” in Armenia’s judicial system.
Ignoring stern warnings from Ankara, a key committee of the U.S. House of Representatives narrowly approved on Thursday a resolution that recognizes the 1915 mass killings of Armenians in Ottoman Turkey as genocide and urges President Barack Obama to do the same.
President Serzh Sarkisian asserted Armenia’s European vocation on Wednesday at a meeting with the visiting head of an alliance of Europe’s leading conservative parties.
Official Yerevan dismissed on Tuesday Turkish warnings that a U.S. congressional resolution describing the 1915 massacres of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire as genocide would set back the normalization of Turkish-Armenian relations. (UPDATED)
Opposition leader Levon Ter-Petrosian reverted to harsh criticism of Armenia’s leadership but stood by his cautious strategy of trying to topple it on Tuesday as thousands of his supporters marked the second anniversary of the 2008 post-election violence in Yerevan.
A top U.S. diplomat was reported to praise Armenia’s position in the stalled normalization process with Turkey at a meeting with President Serzh Sarkisian on Thursday.
They are a thorn in the side of Armenia’s government and the favorite target of Turkish politicians furious with Armenian genocide bills put before foreign parliaments. Hidden away from the public eye, the thousands of Armenian nationals believed to be illegally working in Turkey form the most low-key and obscure Armenian migrant community abroad.
Armenian law-enforcement authorities reported on Thursday their biggest-ever seizure of heroin which they said was smuggled to Armenia by Iranian drug dealers through neighboring Turkey.
President Serzh Sarkisian urged Turkey on Tuesday to comply with its fence-mending agreements with Armenia, warning that any further delay could roll back the “historic” rapprochement between the two nations.
Armenia and Azerbaijan are narrowing their differences over a resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict sought by international mediators, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said over the weekend.
A key committee of the U.S. House of Representatives will vote early next month on a resolution urging President Barack Obama to describe the 1915 mass killings and deportations of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire as genocide, Armenian-American leaders said on Friday.
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