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Headlines for March 28, 2007
ARMENIA BIDS FAREWELL TO ANDRANIK MARGARYAN
Today Armenia bids farewell to Prime Minister Andranik Margaryan. Yesterday President Robert Kocharian, NA Speaker Tigran Torosian, Defense Minister Serge Sargsyan and other officials attended the civil ...RA DELEGATION DEPARTED FOR VAN TO PARTICIPATE IN AKHTAMAR CHURCH INAUGURATION
The official Armenian delegation departed for Van to take part in the inauguration of the Church of St. Cross on Akhtamar island. As a PanARMENIAN.Net reporter came to know from the RA Ministry of Culture ...FRANCE LOST A FRIEND, JACQUES CHIRAC SAID
French President Jacques Chirac sent a condolence message to the RA President on the death of Prime Minister Andranik Margaryan, reports the Armenian Public Television. His message says, in part, “With ...NATO SEC GEN EXPRESSED CONDOLENCES ON PM MARGARYAN’S DEATH
Condolence messages addressed to President Robert Kocharian still come to Armenia. NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt, Tajikistani President Emomali ...RF MFA: KARABAKH CONFLICT LOOKS LESS GLARING AS COMPARED TO CONFLICTS WITH GEORGIA’S INVOLVEMENT.
On the background of conflicts with Georgia’s involvement the Nagorno Karabakh conflict looks less glaring, says a review on Russia’s foreign policy posted at the RF MFA’s web site. The document says ...SIMMONS: PM MARGARYAN WAS AN EMINENT PERSONALITY
Robert Simmons, the NATO envoy for South Caucasus and Central Asia extended condolences to the Armenian leadership and Armenian people on the untimely death of Prime Minister Andranik Margaryan. “Andranik ...BUSH: TURKISH-U.S. TIES PROMOTE WORLD PEACE
In a message to the 26th Annual Conference on Turkish-U.S. Relations, sponsored by the Turkish-U.S. Business Council (TAIK) and the American-Turkish Council (ATC), U.S. President George W. Bush declared ...PM MARGARYAN MADE GREAT CONTRIBUTION TO RUSSIA-ARMENIA COOPERATION, LUZHKOV SAID
Mayor of Moscow Yuri Luzhkov sent a condolence message on the death of RA Prime Minister Andranik Margaryan, reports the RA government’s press office. The message says in part, “A talented and skilled ...PENTAGON HEAD “HINTS” AT INADMISSIBILITY OF ARMENIAN GENOCIDE BILL
Turkey and U.S. damage bilateral relations by mutual claims. Such actions should be stopped, U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said at an American-Turkish conference. Although Mr Gates avoided examples, ...BRYZA: ARMENIAN PRIME MINISTER WAS CONSTRUCTIVE PARTNER
“Andranik Margaryan was a good and constructive partner,” said Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Matthew Bryza during the mourning ceremony today. When asked how PM’s ...U.S. SENATE VOTES FOR WITHDRAWAL OF TROOPS FROM IRAQ TILL MARCH 31, 2008
In the Senate, Democrats affirm a measure setting a timetable of next spring for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq. The deadline is attached to a $122 billion spending bill funding the war in Iraq ...TURKEY CARRIES OUT THREATS TO WASHINGTON?
Turkey refused to allow the U.S. aircraft to exercise night training flights over its territory from the Incirlik air base. “Turkey rates the request of the U.S. command as not corresponding to the agreements ...WOMEN KILLED IN KIRKUK WEREN’T ARMENIANS
The women killed in Kirkuk were not Armenians, they were just Christian, head of the Armenian National Center in Iraq Paruyr Hakobian told a PanARMENIAN.Net reporter. The women were killed with the purpose ...EU READY TO RESUME TALKS WITH TURKEY
The European Union is ready to resume talks with Turkey for full membership. The talks will be resumed on Thursday and will cover business and industry. The information was confirmed by Turkish MFA Spokesman ...2007 SHOULD INTRODUCE SOME CLARITY IN KARABAKH SETTLEMENT
Year 2007 should introduce some clarity in the settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict, chairman of the Federation Council of the RF Federal Assembly Sergey Mironov said in Baku. Being a member of ...OSCE MISSION: FIRES IN KARABAKH CAUSED BY DRY AND HOT WEATHER
Fires that covered the territories adjacent to the NKR armed forces’ contact line in June-September 2006 were conditioned by abundant precipitation in winter and hot dry weather in early spring, OSCE ...OSCE MG TO HOLD CONSULTATION IN VIENNA
Co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group on the Nagorno Karabakh conflict will meet in Vienna this week to hold consultations, The Russian MFA group on Nagorno Karabakh told a PanARMENIAN.Net reporter. OSCE ...U.S. LAUNCHED NAVY DRILLS NEAR IRAN
Mounting tensions between Iran and the West have accelerated war games the U.S. navy is conducting in the Gulf, a spokesman for the U.S. Fifth Fleet said on Wednesday, reports Reuters. A second U.S. ...SOUTH CAUCASIAN AND RUSSIAN PARLIAMENT HEADS TO MEET IN TBILISI IN MAY
During his visit to Baku chairman of the Russian Federation Council Sergey Mironov said that a meeting of the “Caucasian parliamentary four” (speakers of the Azerbaijani, Armenian, Georgian and Russian ...ARMENIA AND TURKEY SHOULD IMPROVE RELATIONS, U.S. AMBASSADOR TO TURKEY SAYS
U.S. Ambassador to Turkey Ross Wilson said yesterday that relations between Turkey and Armenia should be improved. Also commenting on the U.S. Armenian Genocide resolution before the U.S. House of Representatives, ...SERGEY BAGAPSH OFFERED RUSSIA TO INSTALL RADAR STATION IN ABKHAZIA
Sergey Bagapsh, the President of the unrecognized republic of Abkhazia offered Russia to install a radar station in Sukhumi. “Unfortunately, Georgia demonstrates unfriendly attitude towards our republic. ...ARMENIAN AND UKRAINIAN FMS DISCUSSED GUAM INITIATIVE ON FROZEN CONFLICTS
On March 28, Foreign Minister Oskanian received Arseniy Yatsenyuk, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine. Minister came to Armenia to take part in the funeral ceremony of Andranik Margaryan, the ...GEORGE BUSH EXPRESSED CONDOLENCES ON RA PM DEATH
U.S. President George Bush sent a condolence message to Armenian President Robert Kocharian on the untimely death of Prime Minister Andranik Margaryan, the RA MFA press office reports. Presidents of ...
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Today in Armenian history- 1799 Birth of Eone Kish (Kishian), Hungarian Armenian revolutionary figure.
- 1827 General Ivan Paskevich is appointed Governor of the Caucasus and Commander of the Caucasian Special Corps.
- 1830 Birth of organist, conductor, teacher, and public figure, Anton Mayilian in Tbilissi.
- 1907 Birth of surgeon Ivan Gevorgian. He invented pain-killers and pioneered new ways for blood transfusion.
- 1920 The Drama Institute presents its first play.
- 1923 Birth of two-time hero and pilot Nelson Stepanian. The group of pilots led by Nelson Stepanian sank more than 50 enemy ships and destroyed 13 airplanes in World War Two. Nelson Stepanian flew 240 sorties. He died in a dogfight in 1944.
- 1928 Birth of artist and sculptor Ara Harootoonian. His great architectural work is the Sardarapat complex.
- 1988 The Supreme Soviet of the USSR rejects Artsakh's demand to be reunited with Armenia.
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