The Interview of the Armenian Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister Shavarsh Kocharyan to Panorama.am

Question: Mr. Kocharyan, in practice, every day not only threats to launch military operations are sounded in Baku, including the highest level statements, but also claims are issued to the territories of both the Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh and Republic of Armenia. How do you comment this?

Exclusive interview of the RA Deputy Foreign Minister Shavarsh Kovharian to the International News Agency "Novosti-Armenia"

“Novosti-Armenia” – Mister Kocharian, can we say that there is a new situation in the settlement of Karabakh issue after the meeting of the Presidents of Armenia, Azerbaijan and Russia in Sochi? \r\nShavarsh Kocharian - Yes, you can, but after the Sochi statement, Azerbaijan stated that the peaceful settlement does not exclude military activities. That was the same situation as

The interview of the Armenian Foreign Affairs Minister Edward Nalbandian to the "Russian Today" TV

Question: First of all, thank you for finding time for us. You know there is a Russian proverb that a poor peace is better than a good war. Do you agree with it? Can it be applied to this conflict?\r\n\r\nEdward Nalbandian: First of all, I would like to express my condolences on the many victims of terrorist attack at Domodedovo Airport. Surely it was an awful incident. We condemn this crime and g

The opening speech by H.E. Edward Nalbandian, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Armenia during an international conference “The Crime of Genocide: Prevention, condemnation and elimination

The prehistory of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide adopted by the UN on December 9, 1948 is related to the most tragic page in the history of the Armenian people. It was the absence of condemnation and elimination of consequences of the Armenian Genocide that made the young philologist Rafael Lemkin in 1921 ask his professor why the Armenians did not have th

The opening speech by H.E. Edward Nalbandian, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Armenia during an international conference “The Crime of Genocide: Prevention, condemnation and eliminat

Honorable Mr. President,\n Respectable guests,\n Ladies and Gentlemen,\n The prehistory of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide adopted by the UN on December 9, 1948 is related to the most tragic page in the history of the Armenian people. It was the absence of condemnation and elimination of consequences of the Armenian G

Minister Nalbandian recieved Israeli Ambassador Ehoud Gol.

On 21st of May the Foreign Minister of Armenia Edward Nalbandian recieved Israeli ambassador to Armenia Ehoud Gol.      Minister Nalbandian praised the development of the relations between the two countries. He stressed that Armenia is intended to continue the cooperation between our counties. Minister Nalbandian noted with satisfaction that recently a tendency of

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 H.E. Mr. VARTAN OSKANIAN Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Armenia

Mr. President, Distinguished Delegates, Ladies and Gentlemen: We thank Jan Kavan for his work, and we welcome Mr. Julian Hunte in the difficult year that awaits him. At the beginning of this millennium, a summit of the world’s leaders produced a set of development goals aimed at protecting

An Exclusive interview by Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian to the Mediamax Agency

- Mr. Oskanian, you met your Turkish counterpart Sukru Sina Gurel in New York recently. Despite the fact that the bilateral meetings were initiated at the beginning of this year, the meeting with Gurel was the first one after Turkish Foreign Minister Ismail Cem's resignation. Can we say that regardless of the political changes in Armenia