A pivotal conference on Denial and Democracy in Europe will be held in the European Parliament on October 6, examining the implications of genocide denial in Europe, reported the European Armenian Federation for Justice and Democracy in Europe on Wednesday.

We find the visit by Armenian President Serzh Sarkisian to important Diaspora communities to consult on the already agreed upon protocols on the establishment and development of relations between Armenia and Turkey to be late and moot.

Ken Hachikian, Chairman of the Armenian National Committee of America, Wednesday called upon Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton to lift the unfair and heavy pressure the U.S. government is using to force Armenia to accept a set of highly controversial Protocols on the normalization of relations with Turkey.

YEREVAN (A1 Plus)–The Cafesjian Center for the Arts announce Wednesday that it will be having a Grand Opening Celebration on Sunday, November 7 to inaugurate the $35 million dollar museum and art center, perched atop Downtown Yerevan’s famous Cascades.
Taking over two years and $35 million to complete, the project has transformed the Cascade into one [...]

His Holiness Catholicos Karekin II convened a special meeting of the Supreme Spiritual Council of the Holy Sea of Etchmian on Wednesday where he issued an announcement on the ongoing Turkey-Armenia normalization process and the two protocols that will establish diplomatic relations between the two countries.

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved $1 billion in loans that will help to upgrade most of Armenia’s main highways and facilitate the landlocked country’s commercial access to Georgia’s Black Sea coast. (UPDATE)

In a last-minute U-turn, opposition leader Raffi Hovannisian said on Tuesday that he is withdrawing his unexpected resignation from Armenia’s parliament which has sown discord within his Heritage party.

A reporter working for the Turkish NTV television station was summed to the Azeri Foreign Ministry on Wednesday where he was stripped of his media accreditation in Azerbaijan, Azeri Foreign Ministry Spokesman Elkhan Polukhov told reporters at a press conference.

President Serzh Sarkisian tried to defended his policy of rapprochement with Turkey on Wednesday, insisting that it will not thwart greater international recognition of the Armenian genocide or result in more Armenian concessions in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.

The Armenian Bar Association, the Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA), the International Association of Genocide Scholars and the Zoryan Institute for Contemporary Armenian Research and Documentation Wednesday jointly signed onto an amicus brief filed in the United States 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in the case of Movsesian v. Versicherung.

The protocols on establishing diplomatic relations between Armenia and Turkey will be signed before the October 14 World Cup qualifying soccer match between the two countries’ national teams, Turkish Foreign Ahmet Davuoglu told a press briefing on Wednesday.

Turkey’s hopes of joining the European Union have received a blow after Germany gave warning that it was ready to join France and Italy in outright opposition to Turkish membership.

Newly-appointed Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, Tina Kaidanow, traveled to Capitol Hill Tuesday for a late afternoon emergency legislative briefing to address growing Congressional concerns regarding the controversial Turkey-Armenia protocols, sources in Washington told Asbarez.

Amid serious domestic opposition in Armenia to plans for reconciliation with Turkey, the Russian-run Armenian railway company, South Caucasus Railway, has started work on providing a rail link between the two countries.