
Published on August 01, 2008
BRYZA: KARABAKH RESIDENTS WILL THEMSELVES DECIDE WHETHER THE REPUBLIC WILL RETURN UNDER AZERI CONTROL OR WILL BE INDEPENDENT
- Nagorno Karabakh residents will decide for themselves whether the republic will return under Azeri control or will be independent, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State and Co-chair of the OSCE Minsk Group Matthew Bryza said after the meeting between the Armenian and Azeri Foreign Ministers in Moscow. The people of Nagorno Karabakh will express their will through a referendum, he said, Interfax reports.

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Today in Armenian history- 1680 Death of Catholicos Hakob the Fourth (Jughayetsee). He accompanied Israel Oree to Europe, seeking assistance from the Christian states for Armenian emancipation.
- 1766 Catholicos Simeon Yerevantsi sends a message to Tsarina Ekaterina (Catherine) the Second, asking for help on behalf of Armenia.
- 1812 The "Deetak Byoozantion" periodical was published until September 1816 in Constantinople.
- 1817 Birth of Hovhannes Aivazovsky (seascape artist) in Feodosia (the Ukraine). He died in 1900.
- 1862 Armenians meet in Constantinople and ask the Sultan to ratify the National Constitution.
- 1894 Defense of Sassoon (Western Armenia) against Turkish attacks.
- 1896 500 Kurds are brought to Constantinople by the Turkish Government to help carry out the Genocide of the Armenians there.
- 1903 Birth of Goorgen Mahari (writer). He died in 1969.
- 1905 Tsar Nicholas the Second abrogates his 1903 06 12 law closing Armenian Parish Schools. They are reopened.
- 1914 With the start of the First World War on this day, all previous agreements concerning Armenia were ignored. The Armenians were in imminent danger: in fact, the Armenian Genocide started eight months later.
- 1918 Opening of the First Parliament of the Armenian Republic under the presidency of Father Abraham (Aveteek Sahakian).
- 1919 The Armenian Parliament opens in Yerevan.
- 1919 The Azerbaijani Government and the Artsakh National Council sign a Provisional Treaty.
- 1934 Opening of the First Congress of Armenia's Soviet Writers.
- 1954 The All-Union Agricultural Exhibition reopens in Moscow.
- 1997 On the appointment of Artsakh President Kocharian to the post of Prime Minister of Armenia, by President Ter-Petrossian of Armenia, the minister of Foreign Affairs for Artsakh, Arkady Ghoukasian is elected President of Artsakh for a five-year term.
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