Astghik Bedevian

Ստեղծվել է Astghik Bedevian

• Նոյեմբեր 24, 2010

  Young Members Quit Opposition Party En Masse

  A key opposition party aligned in Levon Ter-Petrosian’s Armenian National Congress (HAK) confirmed on Tuesday that 26 members of its youth wing have resigned for what it described as unclear reasons.

• Նոյեմբեր 10, 2010

  Yerevan Says Armenian POWs ‘Blackmailed’ By Azerbaijan

  The Armenian government on Tuesday dismissed Azerbaijan’s claims that Armenian soldiers remaining in Azerbaijani captivity are unwilling to return home.

• Հոկտեմբեր 30, 2010

  Armenian Military ‘Committed’ To POW Swap Agreement

  Armenia will abide by the agreement reached with Azerbaijan regarding the exchange of prisoners or war and the bodies of people killed as a result of the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh, according to the country’s Defense Ministry.

• Հոկտեմբեր 28, 2010

  Armenia Remembers 1999 Parliament Shoot-Out Victims

  Armenia marked on Wednesday the 11th anniversary of an armed attack on its parliament that left its prime minister, parliament speaker and six other officials dead and had lasting political repercussions for the country.

• Հոկտեմբեր 27, 2010

  Armenia ‘Sliding Slowly’ In Global Graft Rankings

  A leading international watchdog this week reported a further slight increase in government corruption in Armenia, ranking it among the 55 or so most corrupt countries of the world covered by its annual surveys.

• Հոկտեմբեր 21, 2010

  Opposition Downbeat on Lawsuit over Post-Election Clashes

  Armenia’s main opposition alliance says it has no expectations that a civil court in Yerevan will accept the claim filed by its supporters on Wednesday holding law-enforcement agencies responsible for human rights violations resulting in deaths and injuries over two years ago.

• Հոկտեմբեր 20, 2010

  Ter-Petrosian Invites Europe’s Attention to Democracy Issues in Armenia

  Armenian opposition leader Levon Ter-Petrosian has leveled fresh criticism at a European body overseeing the state of democracy in Armenia accusing it of “inconsistent efforts” to see the fulfillment of its resolutions through in the South Caucasus state.

• Հոկտեմբեր 08, 2010

  Armenian Captive Was Civilian, Insists Family

  Grieving relatives of the Armenian man who died in Azerbaijani captivity this week joined official Yerevan on Thursday in insisting that he was a civilian, rather than a military serviceman sent to Azerbaijan on a sabotage mission.

• Հոկտեմբեր 07, 2010

  Yerevan Denies More Turkish-Armenian Contacts

  Armenia and Turkey have held no fresh negotiations since the effective collapse of their normalization agreements, Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian insisted on Wednesday, denying statements to the contrary attributed to his Turkish and Swiss counterparts.

• Մայիս 28, 2010

  American-Armenian Group Seeks Scrutiny Of Bryza Nomination

  An influential American-Armenian group has called for a careful scrutiny of the record of an Obama nominee, a former mediator in the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict, to take a diplomatic post in Baku.

• Նոյեմբեր 14, 2009

  Turkish-Armenian Writer Reports Death Threats

  A Turkish-Armenian newspaper columnist claimed on Friday to have received hundreds of deaths threats after altering a famous quote from the founder of modern Turkey to make a case for sweeping reforms in the country.

• Հուլիս 25, 2009

  U.S. Mediator Says Yerevan Took Over As Main Negotiating Party “A Few Years Ago”

  A senior United States representative mediating the ongoing peace talks between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the Nagorno-Karabakh dispute has said that “the Karabakhi Armenian representatives were at the [negotiating] table until a few years ago when the Armenian side, Yerevan, decided to represent them.”

• Հուլիս 20, 2009

  Azerbaijan’s FM Sees ‘Certain Progress’ in Karabakh Settlement

  Azerbaijan’s foreign minister has spoken of ‘certain progress’ made in the Karabakh settlement process after the latest round of talks between the Azerbaijani and Armenian presidents in Moscow late last week.

• Հուլիս 15, 2009

  Tehran-Yerevan Passenger Plane Crashes in Iran

  A Tupolev plane operating a Caspian Airlines commercial flight from Tehran to Yerevan crashed on Wednesday in northwest Iran, near the city of Qazvin.

• Մայիս 15, 2009

  3 Killed In Armenian Chemical Plant Blast

  At least three people were killed and about two dozen others injured in two powerful explosions at Armenia’s largest chemical company on Thursday.