While we fully understand and share the feelings of our compatriots in relation to Hungarian government’s indefensible decision, we do not feel that our withdrawal from international academic and cultural forums will either enforce that message or contribute to the resolution of the current situation. Moreover, we believe that irrespective of the politics involved and further diplomatic clarifications the academic and cultural dialogue...
Visiting NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, at a joint press conference with RA President Sargsyan in Yerevan, stated that, ““I’m deeply concerned by Azerbaijan’s decision to pardon Ramil Safarov, because that decision damages trust.”
The Karen Jeppe Armenian National College, with over 1,000 students, and the Sahagian and Zavarian high schools, are in New Village. There’s also the Armenian Catholic Zvartnots School. Last year, the Marash National Mesrobian School shut its doors.
The second important factor, was the expectation that Armenia would take extreme, perhaps even hysterical and unbalanced measures, especially related to the Karabakh negotiations process; in particular, that Armenia would pull out of the talks, immediately recognize Artsakh, or even go so far as to physically remove Safarov.
The preliminary investigation of the criminal case initiated against a group of people for committing bandity and theft by wielding a gun was completed in the General Investigations Unit of the Police adjunct to the government of the Republic of Armenia.The prosecutor who supervised the preliminary investigation of the criminal case confirmed the bill of indictment.
According to Turkish press reports, some 500 people gathered in Istanbul’s Taksim Square yesterday to protest the release of a Turkish soldier who is on trial in the suspicious killing of Sevag Balikci, a Turkish-Armenian soldier, on April 24, 2011.