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Published on December 01, 2009
OSCE FOREIGN MINISTERS REMINDED BAKU OF ITS COMMITMENTS UNDER MINEDORF DECLARATION
- Foreign Ministers of OSCE MG co-chairing states Sergey Lavrov (Russia) and Bernard Kushner (France) and U.S. Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg met with Armenian and Azeri FMs in Athens, Greece, on the margins of OSCE Foreign Ministers’ Summit. OSCE Foreign Ministers reminded conflicting parties of their commitments under Minedorf Declaration (November 2008) and Helsinki Final Act (December 2008). Noting the positive dynamics in conflict settlement talks, they attached much significance to frequent meetings. Russian, French and American officials reiterated their countries’ willingness to assist Armenian and Azeri Presidents in achieving final coordination of principles. They find the principles key to settling conflicts on regional level. Armenian and Azeri Foreign Ministers reiterated their countries’ willingness to achieve mutual understanding based on the principles enshrined in Helsinki Final Act (non-use of force, territorial integrity, equal rights and freedom of nations).
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OSCE MINISTERIAL COUNCIL TO ADOPT STATEMENT ON KARABAKH
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Today in Armenian history- 1824 The Nerssissian school opens in Tbilissi (Georgia) and continues to operate till 1924.
- 1827 Creation of an Armenian printing-house in Shooshee (Artsakh).
- 1827 Sultan Mahmud the Second expels about 12000 Armenian Catholics from Constantinople. Some 4000 die of exposure along the way and the remainder are banished to provinces of Asia Minor, which they reach in February 1828.
- 1876 The Turkish government orders the burning of the market of Van and destroys Armenian properties.
- 1894 Publication of the "Struggle" newspaper (Association of Armenian Worker-Revolutionaries).
- 1899 Death of Tigran Yerkat, publicist and public figure.
- 1903 Death of Manvel Qadjooni, historian, geographer, and philologist. He was born in 1823.
- 1903 Death of Manuel Katjooni (historian) in Constantinople. He was born in 1823.
- 1914 Battle of Sarighamish. Destruction of the Turkish Army, that was led by Enver Pasha.
- 1915 United States President Theodore Roosevelt states: The crowning outrage has been committed by the Turks on the Armenians. They have suffered atrocities so hideous that it is difficult to name them, such atrocities such as those inflicted upon conquered nations by the followers of Attila and Genghis Khan. It is dreadful that these things can be done and that this nation nevertheless remains neutral.
- 1917 The People's Commissariat of Nationalities of Soviet Russia creates the Commissariat of Armenian Affairs in Moscow. Varlam Avanesov is appointed commissar and Vahan Teryan (poet) is the deputy.
- 1920 The Revolutionary Council of Azerbaijan recognizes Gharabagh, Zangezur, and Nakhichevan to be parts of Armenia.
- 1921 Elections of the first Peasant District and Provincial Unions in Armenia.
- 1923 The Komitas State Conservatory of Music opens in Yerevan.
- 1929 Yerevan's Kanaker radio station starts its broadcasts.
- 1941 Colonel Simon Zakyan heads the new Armenian 89th Rifle Division.
- 1989 The reunification of Artsakh and Armenia is accepted during a joint session of the Parliaments of Armenia and Artsakh. This was followed by the adoption, by Artsakhs legislative body, of a motion to secede from Azerbaijan. The Supreme Soviet of Azerbaijan rejected the decision as illegal and the Supreme Soviet of the USSR declare? it null and void.
- 1989 The Supreme Council of Mountainous Gharabagh (Artsakh) decides to rejoin Armenia in a joint session with the Armenian supreme Council.
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