BAKU (Combined Sources)–Azeri President Ilham Aliyev met with a group of Azeri and Armenian academicians, who had met with the presidents of Armenia and the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic a day earlier. The group Azerbaijan and Armenian public figures led by the Armenian and Azeri Ambassadors to Russia, Armen Smbatyan and Polad Bulbuloglu, toured Stepanakert and Shushi [...]

LOS ANGELES–After escalating criticism from the Armenian American community for his role in obstructing an article on the Armenian Genocide this April and his discriminatory behavior against Armenian American reporters, Los Angeles Times Managing Editor Douglas Frantz has resigned effective July 6th and will be returning to Istanbul, reported the Armenian National Committee of America-Western [...]

YEREVAN (Armenpress)–“The Nagorno-Karabakh Republic has been de facto independent. We need to achieve its de jure independence through the negotiation process,” said Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian during a press conference Friday. Oskanian addded that the talks might be deadlocked, but every step is being taken to ensure that the negotiations move forward. “It is necessary [...]

WASHINGTON–The Armenian Genocide Resolution (H.Res.106) reached an important milestone today with the number of cosponsors for the human rights measure growing to 218 ’s a majority of the U.S. House of Representatives, reported the Armenian National Committee of America. "We welcome the growth of Armenian Genocide Resolution cosponsors to the 218 threshold ’s and want [...]

LOS ANGELES– A powerful Latina Congresswoman from Los Angeles is working in the Halls of Congress to end the Turkish Government’s denial of the Armenian Genocide. Congresswoman Lucille Roybal-Allard (D-CA-34), has joined forces with over 210 cosponsors of the Armenian Genocide resolution (H. Res. 106) to set the record straight on a crime against all [...]

BRUSSELS (AFP)–Portugal, which becomes European Union president this weekend, rejected Thursday a request by France to hold a major debate this year on EU borders and Turkey’s future membership. Speaking to reporters in Brussels, State Secretary for European Affairs Manuel Lobo Antunes said France was within its rights to raise the issue but that Portugal [...]

YEREVAN (Armenpress)–An exhibition dedicated to contemporary Armenian art kicked off Monday in Paris. Armenian Foreign Ministry press service told Armenpress that at the opening event Armenia’s ambassador to France Edward Nalbandian, deputy heads of French Senate Jan-Claude Godin and Guy Fischer were present. Around 100 fine art works and sculptures by 23 Armenian artists are [...]

YEREVAN (Armenpress)–A delegation of Armenian and Azeri academicians, headed by the two countries’ ambassadors to Russian Wednesday met with Armenian President Robert Kocharian and the president of Nagorno-Karabakh Republic Arkady Ghoukasian. Ghoukasian met with the delegation headed by Armenian Ambassador to Russia Armen Smbatyan and Azeri Ambassador to Russia Polad Byul-Byul Oghlu, to discuss establishment [...]

Los Angeles Times Editor James O’Shea announced this morning that the newspaper’s Managing Editor Doug Frantz will leave The Times. Frantz gained notoriety in the Armenian community when in April he went out of his way to kill a story on the Armenian Genocide. The basis he used for killing the story were allegations [...]

ANKARA (Reuters) – The head of Turkey’s powerful armed forces reaffirmed on Wednesday his view that a cross-border operation into northern Iraq was needed to crush Kurdish rebels based there. His commen’s pile more pressure on Turkey’s government to allow a military operation, just weeks before parliamentary polls in which security and terrorism issues will [...]

YEREVAN (RFE/RL)–A US embassy official said Wednesday that Rudolf Perina will take over from Anthony Godfrey, the deputy chief of mission, as U.S. charge d’affaires in Yerevan next month. Unlike Godfrey, Perina has the diplomatic rank of ambassador and has served as U.S. ambassador to former Yugoslavia and Moldova in the past. He is [...]

MOSCOW (RIA Novosti)–Russia formally handed over its military base at Akhalkalaki in southern Georgia to Tbilisi Wednesday, as part of an ongoing scaling-down of its military presence in the ex-Soviet state. Georgia says the location of the 15,000-man military complex, founded in 1910, is strategically important. The handover of the base, formally known as [...]

YEREVAN (Armenpress)–As part of his official visit to Armenia, Greek President Karolos Papoulias, accompanied by his wife May, Wednesday visited the Dzidzernagapert memorial monument and the adjacent Genocide Museum, where they laid a wreath to commemorate the victims of the Armenian Genocide. “The fact of the [Armenian] Genocide is very barbaric from a human rights [...]

LOS ANGELES–Supporters of the Armenian National Committee – Political Action Committee met with Senator Joseph Biden on Sunday, June 24 in Los Angeles, California to discuss foreign policy issues important to the large Armenian American community in the Golden State. Senator Biden, who is the Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, announced in January [...]