Minister Oskanian Speaks On Genocide Remembrance in Brussels

The Royal Conservatory of Belgium was full of diplomats, journalists and students on April 25 as Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian highlighted a Commemorative Evening under the auspices of the Armenian Embassy in Brussels. The Minister's talk, entitled "Remembering a Past, Forging a Future," addressed the n

Speech by H.E. Vartan Oskanian Minister of Foreign Affairs At the University for Peace Conference on Capacity Building for Peace and Development: Roles of Diaspora

In this conference of experts, I feel right at home. I am, by default, an expert on Diaspora. I was born in Syria, the heart of the Armenian Diaspora, came to the homeland for the first time as a Diasporan student -- and today, I am foreign minister of that homeland which has more of its nationals living in Diaspora, than at home. I appre

Minister Oskanian addressed the Armenia-EU Parliamentary Cooperation Committee

Opening Remarks by Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian at the Armenia-EU Parliamentary Cooperation Committee I want to welcome the EU parliamentary delegation to Armenia. It has been a year since the last PCC meeting took place in Strasbourg. Since then, Armenia's political dialogue with the EU has intensified. I w

H.E. Mr. Vartan Oskanian, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Armenia, Addresses the students of the International Affairs Dept of Yerevan State Un

Thank you for giving me this opportunity today to speak with you. There is no more current theme today, in Armenia, than constitutional reforms. I¹m pleased to be addressing this theme with this audience today, because it is you students who will be affected by the changes which these amendments propose, and it is you who ca

STATEMENT BY H.E. MR. VARTAN OSKANIAN

Mr. President, Congratulations on your election, and we look forward to working with you as we have with President Omolewa. Congratulations also to the Director-General with whom we look forward to working for a long time to come. At a time when the world is faced with new types of violence and must therefore seek new w

Address by H.E. Mr. Vartan Oskanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Republic of Armenia At the Commencement Ceremony and the 50th Anniversary of Haigazian University

It is a pleasure and an honor to speak at the commencement ceremony and the 50th year anniversary of an institution whose life parallels and reflects the history, experiences and transitions that have made Lebanon. Armenians are proud to be an inextricable part of that history. As a representative of the Armenian government, I am

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

Statement by Vartan Oskanian Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Armenia at Chatham House

pictures Thank you for the opportunity to speak with you here today. I look forward to what is always an interesting dialog. In preparing my thoughts for this evening, I looked over my talk here at Chatham House in 1999. I suppose I knew, but those notes, black on white, drove home the point that the world is a different

Statement by the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Armenia Mr. Vartan Oskanian 60th Session of the Commission on Human Rights

Mr. Chairman, The first time I addressed this forum seven years ago, Armenia was not yet a member of the Council of Europe, was not a member of this Commission, and the responsibilities and obligations facing us appeared overwhelming. Today, as I take stock of where we were and how far we’ve come, I am pleased to say that Arm

Speech by Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian at the Conference on the Southern Caucasus- Political Challenges and Development Perspectives

I appreciate the opportunity to speak before you on our political challenges, on resolving conflicts and perhaps most importantly, on development. When I’m at the OSCE or at the Council of Europe, I speak with my foreign minister’s hat on. Here, in this more theoretical forum, I’d like to use the opportunity to speak