Dear colleagues, Ladies and Gentlemen,\r\nI would like to thank my Russian and Lebanese colleagues for this timely initiative to discuss the situation of Christian minorities in the Middle East.

We should not be misled by the fact that the ongoing violence against religious groups, particularly Christians in Syria and Iraq, is being perpetrated in the very name of religion. What we are countering here are crimes against civilization perpetra

On March 1, Holy Mass was served in St. Nishan Armenian-Orthodox Church of Beirut and memorial service took place in commemoration of Armenian victims of Sumgait massacres on February 27-29, 1988.\r\n

On March 1, a concert dedicated to the Centennial of the Armenian Genocide was organized in Toronto, in cooperation with the Embassy of Armenia in Canada.

On February 28, presentation of a new book of New York resident Hrant Margarian was organized at the hall of Holy Cross Armenian Apostolic Church by Hamazkayin Armenian Educational and Cultural Society, in the framework of events, dedicated to the Ce

From February 24 through February 27 in the framework of “Never Again” project movies, dedicated to Centennial of Armenian Genocide, were shown, sponsored by the Embassy of Armenia to Belarus and “Golden apricot” international

On February 26, an event dedicated to the Centennial of the Armenian Genocide was held at Berlin Parliament, giving start to scheduled events in Germany.

Tigran Balayan: It is inappropriate that any politician could allow himself to be dragged in the Azerbaijani cheap manipulations.\r\n

Question. The Foreign Minister of Turkey stated that Ankara always had a preconditions for the normalization of Armenian-Turkish relations, and that, supposedly, it was known around the globe. How would you interpret that?Shavarsh Kocharyan. As Fo

Armen Rustamyan. My question is for you, Mr. Nalbandian. I am talking about the subversive group which was neutralized in Karabakh. I have a concern, that the issue could be presented in a different way, thus the essence may be distorted. As, we know