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Headlines for March 30, 2007
OSKANIAN AND MAMEDYAROV MOST LIKELY TO MEET IN APRIL
The next meeting between Armenian and Azeri Foreign Ministers will be held in April, Armenian Acting Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian stated in Yerevan. He said, currently OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs ...EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT SUPPORTED KOSOVO’S INDEPENDENCE
On Thursday the European Parliament with overwhelming majority of voices supported UN’s plan for Kosovo, according to which in fact the province is granted all attributes of statehood. The plan has been ...BLOCKADE OF ARMENIAN BORDER BY TURKEY IS BASELESS AND CAUSELESS
Armenian delegation’s participation in the inauguration of Armenian medieval Holy Cross Church on Akhtamar island was necessary, RA Acting Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian stated in Yerevan. He said, ...RPA TO OFFER CANDIDATURE FOR NEW PRIME MINISTER APRIL 2
On April 2 the Republican Party of Armenia will offer its candidature for RA Prime Minister. RPA Press Secretary Eduard Sharmazanov told the PanARMENIAN.Net journalist that on April 2 the party will ...U.S. SENATE ADOPTED BILL ON CRIMINAL PUNISHMENT FOR COMMITTING GENOCIDE
The U.S. Senate adopted a legislation, which allows the Justice Department to prosecute in the United Stated those who are responsible for committing genocide in other countries. The Armenian National ...TURKEY “CONDEMNED” U.S. SENATE FOR ADOPTING RES. 65 THAT CONDEMNS HRANT DINK’S MURDER
Turkey “condemned” the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee for adopting the resolution that condemns the murder of Agos weekly editor-in-chief Hrant Dink. “It is quite clear the inclusion of this ...TURKISH CULTURE MINISTER DID NOT USE WORD “ARMENIA” EVEN ONCE IN OPENING OF HOLY CROSS CHURCH
The restoration of the Holy Cross Church had been sold to the world - and specifically to the US, whose House of Representatives is about to consider a resolution labeling the Armenian deaths genocide ...U.S. IS NOT GOING TO INSTALL ANTI-MISSILE SYSTEM IN CAUCASUS, BRYZA STATED
The United States is not going to install anti-missile radar in Caucasus, U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Matthew Bryza stated to journalist in Georgian capital ...RENOVATION OF HOLY CROSS CHURCH DOES NOT REFLECT ANKARA’S REAL ATTITUDE TOWARDS ARMENIANS
Congresswoman Diane Watson, a leading member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, today warned her colleagues not to be misled by the Turkish government's token efforts to use the renovation of a ...CSTO PA AGAINST INSTALLMENT OF U.S. ANTI-MISSILE RADAR IN EUROPE
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) is against installment of U.S. anti-missile radar in Europe. “This decision contradicts to the security provisions in ...ONE MORE SUSPECT IN HRANT DINK’S MURDER ARRESTED
The investigation into the Istanbul murder of Agos Armenian-Turkish editor-in-chief Hrant Dink continues. Hurriyet reports that on March 29 25-year-old Erzerum resident Mustafa Ozturk had been previously ...A NUMBER OF U.S. CORPORATIONS UNAWARE THEY “PARTICIPATE” IN THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST GENOCIDE RECOGNITION
American corporations Microsoft, Johnson & Johnson’s and Cargill’s refuted the information that they participate in the campaign against the Armenian Genocide recognition. The Armenian National Committee ...INAUGURATION OF HOLY CROSS CHURCH ON AKHTAMAR IS “CULTURAL GENOCIDE”
“This is the day of the opening of a “church-museum”, which the Minister of Cultural Affairs turned into a mess. Whatever the intention was, it looks like a “cultural genocide”. The Ministry has renamed ...ARMENIANS AND ITALIANS HAVE MUCH IN COMMON, WHICH WILL HELP TO STRENGTHEN BILATERAL TIES
Italy’s newly appointed Ambassador to Armenia Massimo Lavezzo Cassinelli presented his credentials to Armenian President Robert Kocharian. “Armenian-Italian cultural and economic relations significantly ...IRAQI ARMENIANS DO NOT APPRECIATE PRESENCE OF ARMENIAN PEACEKEEPERS IN COUNTRY
Iraqi Armenians have never had problems with the authorities, head of Central Armenian National Administration of Iraq Paruyr Hakopian stated at his meeting with “Noravank” scientific-educational fund ...
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Today in Armenian history- 1804 Birth of the Hungarian-Armenian armenologist, church and public figure Kristof Lookachin (Khachik Lookachian or Ghukasian). He frequently raised the issue in the Austro-Hungarian Government and the Pope to free Armenians from Latin bishops' power and to reestablish the Armenian bishopric.
- 1805 Russian forces occupy Artik (Sultanate of Shoragyal).
- 1827 The Armenian Volunteer Corps Military Parade takes place in Tbilissi (Georgia).
- 1828 Creation of New Bayazet. From 1959, it was called Kamo. Presently it is known as Gavarr.
- 1856 Signature of the Paris Treaty to end the Crimean War.
- 1909 Sultan Hameed was dethroned in Constantinople.
- 1933 The Children's Park is founded in the place of Yerevan's old market place (Ghanthar).
- 1935 Death of Rromanoss Melikyan (composer) in Tbilissi (Georgia). He was born in 1883.
- 1943 Nelson Stepanyan (pilot, war hero) arrives in Yerevan.
- 1998 The Municipal Council of Venice condemns the Armenian Genocide of 1915 and expresses its solidarity with the Armenians, historical truth, and the defence of human rights.
- 1998 Robert Kocharian was elected President of Armenia in the second round of the Presidential elections, with 59 % of the votes.
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