Four years after Yerevan announced its intention to join the Russian-led Customs Union (now Eurasian Economic Union - EAEU), the consequences of the move are still haunting Armenia. The basis of Armenia’s declared multi-vector foreign policy has been shattered. The 3 September 2013 U-turn put a halt to the Association Agreement (AA) with the European Union that Armenia was supposed to sign two months later
Can Yerevan Play the “Iran Card” to its Advantage? Yerevan’s official “shift” to Tehran clearly signified that Armenia has decided to put Plan-B into action.
Armenian-Georgian contradictions have become more clearly defined of late. These became evident after the Russian-Georgian war and the Armenian-Turkish normalization process that came afterwards.
A group of Armenian and Azerbaijani youth has met in neighboring Georgia at the beginning of August to participate in the Armenian-Azerbaijani workshop “Dialogue for Action”: The workshop was organized by the Imagine Centre for Conflict Transformation, ...
While Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Recep Erdogan’s visit to Baku eased much of the tension existing in Turkish-Azerbaijani relations, it created a new atmosphere of tension in the normalization process of Armenian-Turkish relations and in the Caucasus region ...
Today's issue of Sabah, a Turkish daily newspaper, features an article that presents what it alleges to be the five main points in the recently signed Turkish-Armenian "road map" leading to the normalization between the two nations. The five points are as ...
Under both internal and external pressures, Turkey has been forced to return to its initial set of preconditions regarding the normalization of Armenian-Turkish relations. Twice during the previous week Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan stated that ...
Regional and international media were abuzz last week regarding potential developments in negotiations aimed at normalizing relations between Armenia and Turkey. Public opinion was not only focused on the possible opening of the border between Armenia and ...
For the past twenty-five years, starting way back in 1984, it has become a time-honored tradition for U.S. presidents to deliver a commemorative statement in honor of the victims of the Armenian Genocide. The debate rages on twenty-five years later – will ...
On February 4, 2009, the presidents of the seven member states of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), Russia, Armenia, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan, signed an agreement in Moscow during a session of the Collective ...
In December, 2008, the European Commission unveiled its new Eastern Partnership initiative package. The intention of the initiative is to cement closer cooperation between the European Union and six post-Soviet nations – Armenia, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Ukraine, ...
Last week it was reported that at the end of January representatives of Armenia, Turkey, Georgia, Azerbaijan and Russia would gather in Ankara for the second meeting regarding the Caucasus Stability and Cooperation Platform initiative. The first meeting of ...
As of January 1, 2009, the Turkish State Radio and TV Company (TRT) began to broadcast a 24 hour Kurdish language station (TRT 6) for the first time in its history. While viewed as a mostly positive step, it was late in coming in terms of safeguarding Kurdish ...
"My conscience does not accept the insensitivity showed to and the denial of the Great Catastrophe that the Ottoman Armenians were subjected to in 1915. I reject this injustice and for my share, I empathise with the feelings and pain of my Armenian brothers. I apologise to them."
Last week in Yerevan an international conference on European Union and South Caucasus cooperation and problems took place. Hetq was able to speak with Ivlian Khaindrava, who heads the Georgian Diversity Development and Cooperation Center and has been a member of the Georgian Parliament from 1990-1995 and 2004-2008, as well as with Aleksander Rousetski, the Director of SCRIS (South Caucasus Institute for Regional Security) and Administrator...
Even before the U.S. elections, Turkish Primes Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan went so far as to call Obama “a political dilettante” for his statements on the Armenian Genocide.
As a result, on October 17th it was elected to the Security Council as a non-permanent member with two-thirds of the votes cast in its favor. 151 of the UN’s 192 member states voted to elect Turkey to the Security Council. The last time any country garnered ...
As stated by Rasul Salmani, Director of Iran’s National Gas Company, Iran envisages piping 1.1 billion cubic meters of the blue fuel yearly in the first stage and 2.3 billion as of 2009. Armenia will be supplying Iran with 3.3 billion kilowatt/hours ...
Recent developments show that today Ankara is much more interested in normalizing Armenian-Turkish relations. As Turkish analysts point out, political realities emerging in the region demand this to be so.
Cutting his vacation short, Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayip Erdogan first traveled to Moscow and later to Tbilisi and Baku. In Russia, this unusual diplomatic activity on the part of the Turkish Prime Minister was viewed as a desperate attempt to ...
On July 26, the Caucasus Journalists Network (www.caucasusjournalists.net), with the participation of journalists from Armenia and Azerbaijan, organized an interview with Beka Mindiashvili, head expert at the Center for Tolerance, a body adjunct to the office of the Ombudsman.