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Headlines for July 02, 2007
AGO GROUP ARRIVING IN ARMENIA TODAY
The delegation of monitoring group of the CoE Committee of Ministers, the Ago Group, led by Swedish ambassador Per Sjogren is arriving in Armenia July 2. The delegation includes ambassadors from Sweden, ...DINK MURDER TRIAL OPENS IN ISTANBUL
The trial of 18 people charged in connection with the murder of prominent Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink is to open in the city of Istanbul. Mr Dink, 53, was gunned down outside his newspaper’s ...AZERI CITIZEN DETAINED AFTER CROSSING KARABAKH BORDER
June 30, the NKR Defense army officers detained an Azeri citizen in the Aghdam direction of the contact line of the Nagorno Karabakh and Azerbaijani armed forces. The NKR state commission on missing and ...LEVEL OF RELATIONS BETWEEN ARMENIA AND FRANCE CAN BE WELCOMED
The Armenia-France relations are completely satisfactory, French Ambassador to Armenia, Mr Serge Smessov said in an interview with PanARMENIAN.Net. “This fact can be proved by the visit of French President ...FRANCE’S POLICY TOWARDS ARMENIA WILL UNDERGO NO CHANGES WITH NEW PRESIDENT
I can firmly say that in the person of new president Nicolas Sarkozy, France will maintain traditional friendly policy towards Armenia, French Ambassador to Armenia, Mr Serge Smessov said in an interview ...ARMENIA-FRANCE ECONOMIC RELATIONS DO NOT REACH THE LEVEL OF POLITICAL ONES
Economic relations do not reach the level of political ones, French Ambassador to Armenia, Mr Serge Smessov said in an interview with PanARMENIAN.Net. “However, there is real hope that the trade and economic ...RA DEFENSE MINISTER DISCUSSED KARABAKH ISSUE WITH PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE OF OSCE CHAIRMAN-IN-OFFICE
Armenian Defense Minister Mikael Harutyunyan held a meeting with Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Ambassador Andrzej Kasprzyk. As Defense Minister’s spokesman, col. Seyran Shahsuvaryan ...ANCA HELD 24-HOUR "CALL FOR JUSTICE" CAMPAIGN IN SUPPORT OF ARMENIAN GENOCIDE RESOLUTION
Thousands of Armenian Americans and human rights advocates participated in the ANCA National Call-In Days this week calling for increased bipartisan backing for the adoption of the Armenian Genocide Resolution ...BORIS TADIC: RESOLUTION OF SOUTH CAUCASUS CONFLICTS MAY DEPEND ON KOSOVO DECISION
Resolution of the Kosovo conflict may change the situation in the South Caucasus, Serbian President, Chairman of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe (CoE), Boris Tadic, said in Strasbourg ...TWO TURKS ARRESTED IN SWITZERLAND FOR ARMENIAN GENOCIDE DENIAL
Two Turks were arrested in Switzerland for the Armenian Genocide denial last week. The Swiss police reported that the Turks were arrested at a conference during which posters denying the Armenian genocide ...AGO GROUP CONFIRMED COE ASSESSMENT OF ARMENIAN PARLIAMENTARY ELECTION
During a meeting with Ago Group head Per Sjogren we focused on the Nagorno Karabakh conflict settlement process, Armenian Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian said at a joint news conference in Yerevan. ...OSKANIAN REQUESTED TERRY DAVIS TO COMMENT ON HIS STATEMENTS ON ELECTIONS IN KARABAKH
Statements like those made by Council of Europe Secretary General Terry Davis on elections in NKR do not correspond to reality, Armenian Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian said at a joint news conference ...
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Today in Armenian history- 1804 The 5000-strong Russian force beseiges Yerevan.
- 1833 Birth of Grigor Chilinkiryan (public figure and translator) in Smyrna. He died in 1923.
- 1833 Death of Ghookas Inchichyan (armenologist and geographer) in Venice. He was born in 1758.
- 1840 An earthquake (Richter Scale: 7.0) occurs at Ararat and affects a 5000 sq. km. area. It kills 1000 people.
- 1915 Russian forces retreat, resulting in a massive flight of Armenians from Van and Vaspoorakan. There are huge losses when the Turkish army massacres the remnants of the Armenian population.
- 1921 The Red Army reaches Goris.
- 1946 The first group of Diasporan Armenians are repatriated to Armenia.
- 1985 The 38th Meeting of UN Sub-Committee discusses and approves the report submitted by Great Britain's Representative, Benjamin Whittaker. The 24th paragraph of this report qualifies the Armenian Massacres as an example of Genocide.
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