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Headlines for June 12, 2006ANCA CALLS ON SENATORS TO DEMAND FULL EXPLANATION OF EVANS FIRING
WASHINGTON, DC--The Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA) urged US Senators Friday to demand a full and open explanation of the highly controversial firing of the current US Ambassador to Armenia, ...ARMENIAN AND AZERI FOREIGN MINISTERS TO RESUME KARABAGH TALKS
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YEREVAN (Yerkir/RFE/RL)--Swiss Foreign Minister Micheline Calmy-Rey condemned Azerbaijan’s destruction of the centuries-old Armenian cemetery in Julfa, Nakhichevan during an official visit to Armenia ...EU RESUMES TALKS WITH TURKEY DESPITE CYPRIOT OBJECTIONS
LUXEMBOURG (AFP)--The European Union clinched a last-minute deal to start detailed membership talks with Turkey, overcoming Cypriot objections and narrowly avoiding a new crisis for the beleaguered bloc. ...US WILL NEVER RECOGNIZE NORTHERN CYPRUS
WASHINGTON, DC (Anadolu)--Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Daniel Fried said Turkey should open its sea ports and airports to Cyprus if it hopes to become a member of the ...
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Today in Armenian history- 1200 Birth of Vardan Aigektsee (writer of fables).
- 1724 The Russian-Turkish agreement was signed in Constantinople. Almost the whole of Transcaucasia is ceded to Turkey.
- 1752 Azad Khan marches against the Khanate of Yerevan.
- 1839 The Turkish army is overwhelmed near Nizba (northern Syria) by the Egyptian viceroy's forces.
- 1901 The Tsar lifts the Land Tax and the Tobacco Tax in Transcaucasia. He institutes the Spade Tax.
- 1903 Tsar Nicolas the Second confirms the law on the confiscation and nationalization of Armenian church properties and estates. He closes Armenian Parish Schools.
- 1921 Soviet Armenia declares that Artsakh is an integral part of its territory on the basis of the repeatedy expressed will of the majority of its population.
- 1957 Birth of Monte Melkonyan (Commander of Artsakh forces in Martooni). He died in 1993.
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