U.S. DIPLOMAT SAYS WASHINGTON WANTS RAILWAY CONNECTING TURKEY WITH AZERBAIJAN TO RUN THROUGH ARMENIA
"We have always backed all projects which are designed to boost transport links between neighbor countries and we have been trying to develop projects aimed at linking the West and East and certainly we would like that a railway that is supposed to connect Turkey with Azerbaijan runs through Armenia," a senior U.S. diplomat was quoted as saying by Azerbaijani Press Agency (APA). The diplomat, Mathew Bryza, a deputy assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs and a U.S. cochairman of the OSCE Minsk Group, said the U.S. administration cannot block the construction of a railway that Turkey, Georgia and Azerbaijan want to build, but added that the U.S. hopes that in near future a transportation scheme that will include all the countries of the region will emerge. Last December U.S. President George W. Bush signed into law a resolution imposing a ban on U.S. financing of a proposed railroad that would bypass Armenia. The proposed new Caucasus rail line - at the urging of Turkey and Azerbaijan - would circumvent Armenia. Promoters of the project have sought, even at the planning stages, to secure U.S. financing for this undertaking, prompting Congressional friends of Armenia to preemptively block such attempts. In October of 2005, the European Commission voiced official opposition to the proposed Caucasus railroad bypass of Armenia. A formal statement by the Commission's Directorate General for Transport and Energy noted that its construction was both unnecessary and inefficient in light of the existing railroad connecting Kars, Gyumri of Armenia and Tbilisi.
SAME CANDIDATE NOMINATED FOR POSITION OF US AMBASSADOR TO ARMENIA
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By Nana Petrosian"The Economic and Social Consequences of Opening the Armenian-Turkish Border" conference is to be held in yerevan on January 13-14. The conference is initiated by the Armenian International ...HAKOB AVETIKIAN: ARMENIAN DIASPORA AND ARMENIAN MASS-MEDIA SOURCES PERFORM DIFFERENT TASKS
The Armenian Diaspora and the local Armenian Mass Media sources perform different tasks, Hakob Avetikian, Editor-in-Chief of "Azg" daily newspaper, said today at "Urbat" club. A. Avetikyan ...U.S. DIPLOMAT SAYS WASHINGTON WANTS RAILWAY CONNECTING TURKEY WITH AZERBAIJAN TO RUN THROUGH ARMENIA
"We have always backed all projects which are designed to boost transport links between neighbor countries and we have been trying to develop projects aimed at linking the West and East and certainly ...
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- 1846 The second Russian - Armenian "Kovkas" newspaper was published with the initiative of Father Hakob Karinian and P. Mikayel. It was published until 1848, in Tbilisi.
- 1903 The Tsar confirms the confiscation and nationalization of Armenian Church property and estates.
- 1904 Death of Bishop Mambreh Markosian, painter and monk of Jerusalem.
- 1933 Yerevan's tramway service is inaugurated.
- 1945 Opening of the First Congress of Creative Artists in Yerevan.
- 1945 Opening of the first conference of Armenian composers.
- 1951 Entry into force of the UN Convention on Genocide in accordance with article 13.
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