YEREVAN–STEPANAKERT–BAKU (RFE/RL–Armenpress)–The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict will not necessarily remain unresolved in the immediate future if Armenia and Azerbaijan fail to hammer out a framework peace accord this year–US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Matthew Bryza said on Saturday. He insisted that elections due in the two countries in 2007 and 2008 will not be an insurmountable [...]

ANKARA (Zaman)–Opposition parties in the parliament have given their full support to the Turkish cabinet’s statement that ‘Turkey is going to make full use of its international rights to prevent terrorist attacks against the country,’ Zaman Daily reports.
The Republican People’s Party (CHP) said the decision may even be called a belated one–while the True Path [...]

YEREVAN–The Bureau of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation issued an announcement Monday urging all Armenia’s to actively participate in the relief efforts for Lebanon and called for an immediate cease-fire–especially in light of the civilian death toll following the Israeli bombing of a shelter in the city of Qana. Below is the translated text of the [...]

WASHINGTON–The Armenian National Committee of America–this week–welcomed the adoption by the House of Representatives of an amendment to block US taxpayer funding for an unnecessary and costly proposed railroad between Turkey and Georgia that would–if built–circumvent Armenia and–in the process–undermine the economic viability of the existing Caucasus railroad route through Armenia.
The amendment–spearheaded by Representatives Joe [...]

WASHINGTON–Senator Jack Reed (D-RI) has indicated that he is not prepared to support the nomination of Richard Hoagland as US Ambassador to Armenia until he receives meaningful responses to a series of questions–including several specific inquiries concerning the firing of the current Ambassador John Evans–reported the Armenian National Committee of America.
In a July 26 letter [...]

LAS VEGAS–Supporters of the State of Nevada’s largest Armenian American public affairs organization hosted a fundraising event for the reelection of United States Senator John Ensign on Friday–July 21.
A dinner-reception honoring the Senator was hosted by Mr. & Mrs. Levon & Zaruhi Gulbenkian. Mr. Gulbenkian–who serves as a Board Member of the Nevada ANCA Chapter–was [...]

ANKARA (Associated Press)–A Turkish court on Friday dropped a lawsuit against novelist Orhan Pamuk–rejecting a compensation demand by nationalists from the author for claiming that Turkey had killed more than 1 million Armenia’s and more than 30,000 Kurds.
Nationalist lawyer Kemal Kerincsiz and five other nationalists were seeking 6,000 Turkish Lira ($4,500) each from Pamuk accusing [...]

YEREVAN (Yerkir)–The opening ceremony of the first ever ARF Junior Organization’s (Badanegan) Armenia Pilgrimage was scheduled to take place Saturday at the Yerablur national cemetery with more than 150 participants from nine countries.
This annual event will last through August 5 and the juniors will stay at Aghavnadzor and make trips to different regions in Armenia.
Speaking [...]

YEREVAN (Armenpress)–The US co-chairman of the OSCE Minsk Group Matthew Bryza was scheduled to arrive in Armenia Saturday and leave for a visit to the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic on the same day.
A US embassy official informed Armenpress that during his regional visit the co-chairman will first visit Yerevan from where he will leave for Stepanakert and [...]

WASHINGTON–In a July 25th speech on the House floor–Congressional Armenian Caucus Co-Chairman Frank Pallone (D-NJ) called on the US Senate to block the nomination of Richard Hoagland to serve as the next US Ambassador to Armenia–reported the Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA).
In his remarks–the New Jersey legislator outlined the reasons for his opposition–notably Ambassador-designate [...]

Western Prelate–Archbishop Moushegh Madirossian issued an appeal to the Armenian community to assist in humanitarian efforts and prayers for the victims of the ongoing Israeli bombing of Lebanon–reported the Western Prelacy. Below is the translated text of the appeal:
"Let Us Reach Out to the Victims in Lebanon"
We know that our faithful have been following [...]

(Yerkir)–Refugees and International Law civil association network has sent an open letter to Armenian President Robert Kocharian. The text of the letter is presented below:
Your Excellency,
Refugees and International Law civil association network–with a mission to protect rights of Armenian refugees expelled from Soviet Azerbaijan and Nakhichevan by force–suggests that you include the issue of 500,000 [...]

WASHINGTON (RFE/RL)–The US House of Representatives has passed legislation banning US government assistance to controversial plans for the construction of a railway that would link Turkey with Georgia and Azerbaijan and bypass Armenia.
A resolution approved by legislators late Tuesday contains a provision which says that the US Export-Import Bank can not finance or promote "any [...]

YEREVAN (RFE/RL)–The Armenian government pledged on Wednesday to send humanitarian assistance to Lebanon as the number of people arriving in Armenia from the war-devastated country continued to rise.
A government statement said Prime Minister Andranik Margaryan’s cabinet will allocate on Thursday an unspecified amount of medicines–tents and fire-fighting equipment to the Lebanese authorities and ship them [...]