The Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergei Lavrov has not made any announcement in Azerbaijan that would be in favor of Azerbaijan or against Armenia. He has only announced that in the Russian Federation Minsk group he is carrying out active work for the peaceful settlement of the Karabakh conflict and in case of mutual agreement he is ready to become the guarantee of peace. {BR} And the Azerbaijanis...

”We proceed from the fact that the parties of the Karabakh conflict must come to bilateral agreement themselves. Russia is ready to take active participation in the process both by two-party negotiations and as a co-head of the Minsk group, and to become the guarantee for the achieved agreement.” {BR} This is the position of the official Russia about the Karabakh conflict settlement, about...

Today in the US State Department everyday account the US State position about Nagorno Karabakh conflict has been made public. It is noted in the account that as a result of the conflict there are about one million Armenian and Azerbaijani refugees. “100 thousand Azerbaijanis still live in camps”, mentions the account. {BR} In the account the history of the conflict is briefly outlined,...

Today France's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Armenia Henry Cuny gave a press conference to inform the Armenian journalists about ''real proposals, not speech, but a report'' presented by French President Jacques Chirac at the Davos summit January 26. Jacques Chirac warned the summit participants that ''silent tsunamis'' caused by social polarization, poverty and epidemics can burst...

The settlement of the Karabakh problem is still within the framework of the OSCE Minsk Group, France’s Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Armenia Henry Cuny stated during today’s press conference.{BR} In his words, the Co-Chairs have just taken a time-out in view of the elections held in both states. Henry Cuny reported that the Armenian and Azerbaijani Presidents as well as...

January 26 Robert Kocharyan signed decree on appointing Manuk Margaryan and Yurik Iskoyan judges of the court of original jurisdiction. {BR} The solemn swear-in ceremony took place today in presence of the Juridical Council members. Assuming the office Manuk Margaryan and Yurik Iskoyan swore to follow the Constitution and laws when administering justice, to be impartial and fundamental, just and philanthropic,...

Armenian National Assembly Speaker Artur Baghdasaryan accepted the proposal of Justice and National Unity blocs and called all the parliamentary forces to take part in political discussions on constitutional changes to be held February 13.{BR} Let us remind that Justice bloc secretary Victor Dallakyan told Artur Baghdasaryan that they will participate in the debates only in case the coalition accepts...

Today the OSCE fact-finding Mission accompanied by Minsk Group three Co-Chairs – Yuri Merzlyakov (Russia), Steven Mann (US) and Bernard Fassier - visited Dzhebrail and Fizuli to collect the facts essential for the further report. {BR} Let us remind that January 31 the group paid a call to Kelbadzhar. Russian Co-Chair Yuri Merzlyakov is to accompany the mission members up to the end while B. Fassier and Steven Mann will leave earlier.

“Nothing new is happening at present”, Alexander Arzumanyan, member of Armat public organization told journalists today when commenting on international exaggeration of the Karabakh problem.{BR} Present developments, in Arzumanyan’s opinion are “the result of our 7-year stupid foreign policy”. He is also convinced that today the world demands the status-quo of Karabakh...

“The issues our foreign policy is trying to solve have already been exhausted”, Vazgen Manukyan, chairman of the National Democratic Union said when opening the discussion dedicated to the Artsakh problem. {BR} “The foreign policy is nor being worked out and controlled by the people”, head of the National Self-Determination Union Paruyr Hayrikyan added. Manukyan, Hayrikyan as...

Armenian delegates to the PACE were following "not to do harm" principle. In the words of representative of the Armenian delegation to PACE Shavarsh Kocharyan, our delegation did it best to exclude anti-Armenian items from the resolution adopted. {BR} Nevertheless Shavarsh Kocharyan does not share the opinion of delegation head Tigran Torosyan, who says that the PACE resolution is favorable for Armenia....

Upon completion of the PACE session Armenian National Assembly deputy Shavarsh Kocharyan analyzed the mistakes the Armenian diplomats made . In the deputy's opinion, Armenia is constantly contradicting herself. “We are taking steps as if playing into Azerbaijan’s hands”, he said. {BR} To prove his words Kocharian notes that on Armenian Army Day President Robert Kocharyan and Defense...

Karabakh President Arkady Gukasyan has represented new facts to the co-chairs of the Minsk Group, which, according to Emily Margaret Chaber, Head of the Fact-finding Mission, will considerably help to prepare an objective report. {BR} Arkady Gukasyan has also advised the group to visit the Armenian lands which are under the control of the Azerbaijanis and see the conditions there. By the way, not...

«The draft resolution adopted in PACE smells like oil», said Vahan Hovhannisyan, deputy principal of the Armenian National Assembly several days ago. Regarding this announcement, Tigran Torosyan, the other deputy principal of the Armenian National Assembly, expressed strict opinion: {BR} “I do not smell documents, I work on them”. Tigran Torosyan agrees with the head of the PACE Azerbaijani...

David Atkinson is from now on an average delegate in PACE without any other advantages. That is to say, he is on the same conditions with the other 320 delegates, so the interview he gave to the BBC about the Karabakh conflict is the opinion of an ordinary delegate. {BR} «They could ask the opinion of the other delegates with the same success», says Tigran Torosyan. By the way, in 4 days parliamentary...

On the initiative of the American Bar Association the Armenian judges and lawyers have been discussing the Constitution Amendments. They have come to an agreement that suggestions must be done in the article about the basic freedom and rights of man and citizen, about the formation of the Council of Justice and its working process.{BR} The participants of the seminar which took place in Tsaxkadzor...

Tigran Torosyan, deputy principal of the RA National Assembly, is more than convinced that there is no need to explain away in front of the Armenian society for the draft resolution about the Karabakh conflict adopted in Strasbourg in PACE session. «They do not play football in Strasbourg in order to win or to lose», says Tigran Torosyan. {BR} The head of the Armenian Delegation has his explanation...

Our delegates have worked much and now they can afford to organize sessions not once in a fortnight but once a month. On February 6 the National Ambassy will start the spring session. {BR} Starting from this session the new law of the National Ambassy will be put into execution, according to which the sessions will be organized once in three weeks. From the very beginning of the session the problem...

Today representatives of Armenian Ombudsman Larisa Alaverdyan visited Armen Avetisyan, who is said to have annouced a hunger strike in the Nubarashen jail. According to the information available, the chairman of the Armenian Aryan Union took this step because of the pressure exerted on him. Armen Avetisyan told the Ombudsman’s representatives about some disaccord with his cellmates, which was...

In 1992 the Armenian Defense Ministry declared January 28 the Day of Armenian Army. On that day Armenian President Levon Ter-Petrosian issued a decree on the appointment of Vazgen Sargsian the first Military Minister, who had put his signature to his first resolution on the same day. After 13 years since the formation of the Armenian Army, when the warlike statements the neighbor state become more...

In Georgia there was a conference on “National Minorities after One Year of the Roses’ Revolution” in which the representatives of Armenian, Russian, Azerbaijanian, Ukranian, Kurdish-Ezdish, Asian, Latvian, Lithuanian, German, Greek NGOs took part. In the beginning of the conference the national minorities' main changes and the results after the Roses' Revolution were introduced....

The Security Council should not become an exclusive club of privileged nations -- its decisions should be transparent and clear to the international community, Georgia's Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Revaz Adamia, told correspondents at a Headquarters press conference this afternoon. Mr. Adamia called the press conference following yesterday's closed consultations of the Council on...

Leaders of People's Party of Armenia (PPA) headed by Stepan Demirchyan met with activists of Eghvard party. About 100 people were present at the meeting. According to PPA press secretary Ruzan Khachatryan, the meeting was rather active. PPA Eghvard activitists reaffirmed their determination in attaining their goals; Stepan Demirchyan presented further programmes of the party and “Justice”...

Today started 'CMX-2005' crisise situation control military trаinings under the patronage of NATO secretary general. It will last seven days , and will finish on the 1st of Jenuary. Together with 26 mamber states of NATO the military trainings are planned and realised by nine other co-worker states. These are: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Austria, Croatia, Finland, Irland, Swedserland, and post Yugoslavian...