YEREVAN (RFE/RL)–President Robert Kocharian on Wednesday reaffirmed the Armenian governments ambitions plans for the construction over the next decade of a new nuclear power station in place of the aging Medzamor plant. Kocharian was quoted by his office as telling local and foreign experts sitting on his advisory Council on Atomic Energy Security that the [...]

YEREVAN (ARF Press Service)A delegation from the Party of European Socialists and European Forum for Democracy and Soldarity, in Armenian for a fact-finding mission, met with Armenian Revolutionary Federation Bureau member Vahan Hovannesian, ARF Supreme Council of Armenia chairman Armen Rustamian and ARF political director Giro Manoyan Wednesday. Heading the European delegation was Austrias Peter [...]

YEREVAN (RFE/RL)–Leaders of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation Wednesday met for nearly two hours with President Robert Kocharian to discuss the partys presence in the new Armenian government. The meeting between Kocharian and ARF Bureau chairman Hrant Markarian and ARF Supreme Council of Armenia chairman Armen Rustamian was part of ongoing talks over the make-up of [...]

BUENOS AIRESA delegation representing the Armenian Revolutionary Federation took part in the Argentine Socialist Party Special Convention over the weekend. Representing the ARF were Bureau member Mario Nalbandian, ARF Central Committee member Kevork Dolmadjian and Damien Mnagian. The ARF was among representatives of Socialist parties from Spain, Italy, Brazil, Uruguay and Chile who were invited [...]

YEREVANPresident Robert Kocharian awarded Armenian-American attorney Vahe Yacoubian the prestigious Mkhitar Gosh Award for his service to the country. The Los Angeles-based Yacoubian has been working in Armenia for years and has played an important role in Armenia’s international legal matters and as an advisor. For years, Yacoubian served as Executive Director of the Armenian [...]

ANKARA (Associate Press–Turkey’s prime minister Tuesday said the U.S. and Iraq should destroy bases of separatist Kurdish guerrillas in northern Iraq. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan told private NTV television in an interview that Turkey was expecting the U.S. and Iraq to destroy bases of Kurdish guerrillas in northern Iraq. Erdogan didn’t rule out a [...]

YEREVAN (Combined Sources)–The presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan have tentatively agreed to meet early next month for potentially decisive talks on Nagorno-Karabakh, Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian said on Monday. Oskanian told RFE/RL that the meeting, to be held in the Russian city of Saint-Petersburg on the sidelines of a June 9 summit of former Soviet [...]

WASHINGTON–In a sign of the growing bipartisan support in Congress for the Armenian Genocide Resolution (H.Res.106), the Caucus on Hellenic Issues – spearheaded by New York Democrat Carolyn Maloney and Florida Republican Gus Bilirakis – this week asserted that "it is time" for the U.S. government to recognize this crime against humanity, reported the Armenian [...]

YEREVAN (Combined Sources)–President Robert Kocharian, prime minister Serzh Sarkisian, Nagorno-Karabakh Republic President Arkady Ghoukasian, His Holiness Karekin II, Catholicos of All Armenia, as well as other top government officials, clergy, foreign diplomats and thousands of Armenia’s gathered Monday at Sardarabad for ceremonies commemorating the first Independent Republic of Armenia in 1918. Sardarabad was the scene [...]

YEREVAN (RFE/RL)–Armenia is considering increasing the number of its peace-keeping troops deployed in Kosovo and joining the NATO-led military mission in Afghanistan, a senior Defense Ministry official said on Tuesday. Major-General Mikael Melkonian, head of the ministrys foreign relations department, said Yerevan is discussing with the governmen’s of Britain and Greece the possibility of its [...]

YEREVAN (RFE/RL)–The Armenian Revolutionary Federation will join Prime Minister Serzh Sarkisians new cabinet only if it is given a greater say in how Armenia’should be governed, a leader of the influential party said on Tuesday. ARF Bureau chairman Hrant Markarian said it does not want to be an appendage of Sarkisians and the Republican Party [...]

FBI language specialist Sibel Edmonds was fired from her job with the FBIs Washington Field Office in March 2002. Her crime was reporting security breaches, cover-ups, blocking of intelligence, and the bribery of U.S. individuals including high-ranking officials. The State Secret Privilege has often been invoked to block court proceedings on her case, and the [...]

The last time we talked Turkey like this was just over two years ago with yours truly pointing out a marked increase in coverage of that wondrous country by the LATimes. Then, Id attributed it to progress by Turkey on the European Union front and attendant U.S. State Department activism. This time, I suspect the [...]

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.–The Armenian Technology Congress (ArmTech) announced the launch of ArmTech 07, a global high-technology-focused event to be held in San Francisco from July 4 to 7 at the Fairmont Hotel. This is the first high technology congress and exhibition designed for professionals interested in engaging in the global Armenian community and the rapidly [...]