The State Department will continue to look movements in Armenian- Turkish rapprochement, Deputy Spokesperson Mark Toner said at the Daily Press Briefing, on March ۳۰. “Of course, those issues, those topics are a constant source of – or an issue that we discuss with Turkey and with Armenia, in fact. So we want to see the rapprochement process ...
Police used tear gas and batons to disperse a group of about ۴۰ supporters of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad who tried to approach a congress hall in İstanbul where representatives of more than ۷۰ nations gathered to discuss Syria. Tensions escalated when another group, consisting of opponents of Assad, confronted the pro-Assad group. Police formed ...
The law enforcers destroyed two gunmen in the Sergokali district in Dagestan in the small hours on Monday. “The incident occurred on the outskirts of Kadyrkent in the small hours on Monday. The destroyed gunmen are being identified. The details of the incident are being investigated,” a spokesman of the Dagestani investigation department of the ...
An Azerbaijan-Ukraine business meeting will be held on April ۴ in Baku as part of a visit of Ukrainian delegation led by Prime Minister Nikolai Azarov. The event will be organized by Azerbaijan Export and Investment Promotion Foundation (AZPROMO). The meeting will bring together businessmen representing agricultural, energy, ICT, machine building, ...
•Amendments to narrow circle of entities falling under the law’s regulations; •Wording “directly or indirectly related” to be removed; •Fines imposed by the state audit agency will be reduced; •۰.۲% of GDP cap on donations/spending to be amended; •Courts to have more say over state audit agency’s decisions;...
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said his government is committed to overcoming obstacles to Turkey's democratization and prosperity bid created by certain groups which he called “intriguers.” The ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party) leader was speaking during the Confederation of Businessmen and Industrialists of Turkey (TUSKON) ...
On ۳۱ March Defense Ministry and Public Administration Academy of Armenia signed a memorandum of cooperation. It will enable the professors and lecturers of the Academy to implement experience exchange with specialists of the Defense Ministry in issues like examination of the psychiatric state of soldiers, implementation of educational, cultural programs ...
During Tuesday’s summit Dmitry Medvedev explained his attitude to the opposition. He is impressed by positions of those who do not violate the law on parties. Radicals, who do not observe the Russian legislation, the president considers to be criminals. He suggests calling the non-system opposition “parties, which failed registration.” ...
Professor of the Baku Slavic University Rahila Geybullayeva will be participating in an international conference entitled “European social science history” on April ۱۱-۱۴ in Glasgow, Scotland. The international conference will be attended by representatives of more than ۴۰ countries.
Russia’s planned military exercises this fall was timed deliberately to coincide with Georgia’s parliamentary elections, scheduled for October, President Saakashvili said on March ۳۱. “It is not a coincidence that our neighbor scheduled its large-scale military exercises for second half of September, just several days before elections ...
The Armenian Genocide recognition issue is being discussed in Israel, representative of the Armenian Cause Jerusalem Office Hakob Sevan said speaking to reporters on Friday. "The first attempt was made in ۲۰۰۷ when the issue was raised in Knesset and appeared on the agenda. At that time we did not manage to reach results because of certain political ...
Saakashvili said that his recent trip to the U.S. during which he met with President Obama was “a strategic breakthrough” for Georgia as it resulted into prospect of free trade treaty with the U.S. and Washington’s assistance to increase Georgia’s self-defense capabilities. “The most important about this visit was that for us ...
On March ۱۹ official sources of Armenia's Ministry of Defense reported that Armenian Minister of Defense Seyran Ohanian and a delegation led by him went on a working visit to the United States. The delegation members will meet with Governor of Kansas Sam Brownback. The National Guard of the State of Kansas is Armenia's partner in the military sphere....
The so-called presidential elections held in the Tskhinvali region cannot be considered legitimate according to international norms, Georgian Parliament Speaker David Bakradze said at a meeting of the Bureau on Tuesday. He said there has been no precedent in the world which recognised the legitimacy of the elections against a backdrop of ethnic cleansing....
Head of parliament opposition ARF Dashnaktsutyun group Vahan Hovhannisyan criticized Armenia’s electoral law. Foreign states allow voting for citizens living in other states, the opposition MP said at a press conference on Monday. First Armenia first opposed to dual citizenship, later allowing it, banned the citizens to vote beyond if they are ...
The builders of the bridge across the Bosfor Vostochny Strait in Vladivostok have completed the installation of the cable stayed system - the last ۴۲nd pair of cable stays having the world record length - ۵۷۹.۸۵ metres, has been fixed, the press service of the regional branch of the UKS MOST company told Itar-Tass. The installation was complicated ...
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev was participating in the Thursday meeting of the working group to form an open government system. The meeting was devoted to the development of recommendations on the struggle against corruption. The president supported more than ۲۰ initiatives of experts. A special body can be created in the Prosecutor General’...
Turkey suspended all activities at its embassy in the Syrian capital of Damascus on Monday, the Foreign Ministry said, as the security situation in Syria has deteriorated further. Citing Turkish diplomatic sources, the state-run Anatolia news agency said Turkey has also temporarily recalled its ambassador to the Syrian capital. Sources said Ambassador ...
Journalist Levon Galustyan has become the third Armenian member of the parliament of Abkhazia, Khachik Minosyan, Chairman of the Union of Abkhazia Armenians, told Armenian News-NEWS.am. “The two Armenian candidates—Galust Trapizonyan and Levon Galustyan—who ran in Electoral District No. ۲۰, are educated men whom the Armenian people ...
Brad Sherman (D-CA) emphasized the importance of expanding U.S. assistance to the Republic of Georgia`s Armenian-populated region of Samtskhe-Javakheti (Javakhk) during a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing with US Agency for International Development (USAID) Administrator Rajiv Shah on the Agency`s Fiscal Year ۲۰۱۳ budget, reported the Armenian ...