Minister Oskanian Summarizes 2007 and Speaks of Expectations of 2008

Armenia’s Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian held his first press conference of the new year. In what has become a tradition, he summarized the global and regional political context of the previous year and spoke about Armenia’s accomplishments and challenges. He described the regional and international conditions within which Armenia conducted its foreign policy. In no particular o

Foreign Minister Oskanian Meets with President Boris Tadić of Serbia

On 19 April, Minister Oskanian met with Serbian President Boris Tadić. The Minister was in Belgrade to participate in the 16th Ministerial Meeting of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation. Welcoming the Armenian Foreign Minister, the Serbian President spoke of the historical and cultural ties which exist between the two nations, as well as the friendly nature of the existing r

Minister Oskanian addresses Special Session of the OSCE Permanent Council

Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian addressed a special session of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. The organization's 54 countries' representatives heard the Minister address such issues as OSCE reform, the work of the OSCE office in Yerevan, the upcoming parliamentary elections in Yerevan, the Nagorno Karabakh

From the Near Abroad to the New Neighborhood…

By Rouben Shugarian, Deputy Foreign Minister of the Republic of Armenia Former Ambassador to the US The paradox of the South Caucasus/Black Sea present day regional identity is that less geography means more geo-politics. This is true not only in the context of general europeanization but also as far as the link

SPEECH BY VARTAN OSKANIAN MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS REPUBLIC OF ARMENIA

First in the spirit of regional solidarity, let me congratulate Turkey in its football triumphs. There are some victories that we can all applaud and delight in. Let me express my appreciation for the opportunity extended to me by TESEV to address this group. Anyone interested in the significance of political debate, in Turkey, as

Statement by Mr.Vartan Oskanian Minister of Foreign Affairsof the Republic of Armenia Black Sea Economic Cooperation Council Ministerial Meeting

Distinguished Mr. Chairman, Dear Colleagues, Ladies and Gentlemen, I wish to express my sincere appreciation and gratitude to the Government of Georgia, and personally to the Chairman-In-Office, H.E. Mr. Irakli Menagarishvili, for the warm hospitality extended to the Armenian delegation and for the excellent organization o

Edited Transcription of Talk by Mr.Vartan Oskanian Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Armenia

Indeed, I've been to many schools but the biggest school that I am going to now is my job. Truly, it has been very exciting to work five to six years as an employee of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and now as Foreign Minister. These are historic times, and we are Present at Creation borrowing Dean Acheson's book title.

INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENTS AND THEIR INFLUENCE ON THE CAUCASUS AND ARMENIA

Today, the world is witnessing and participating in the formulation of a new system. There is no bi-polar system any longer: it has been destroyed. Some think that that formulation has already taken place, but in reality, it does not exist. Today, we do not know whether we live in a uni-polar, multi-polar or some other kind of w

THE POLITICS OF PROMISES

The topic of this conference is regional cooperation and regional integration. Regional cooperation is like motherhood--no one is against it. But like the weather, no one seems to be able to do anything about it. We begin with different approaches to regional cooperation today. If I understand the positions of the three republics, the f

China

General information  The Republic of Armenia attaches great importance to the further strengthening of friendly and mutually beneficial ties with the People's Republic of China, as well as to the establishment of new partnership relations. Diplomatic relations between two countries were established on April 6th, 1992. On July 1992 the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China was ope