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Headlines for February 07, 2007
ARMENIA, AZERBAIJAN ‘VERY CLOSE’ TO PEACE DEAL
By Emil Danielyan
Armenia and Azerbaijan are “very close” to hammering out an agreement on Nagorno-Karabakh before their presidential elections due next year, Washington’s chief Karabakh negotiator told RFE/RL on Wednesday. ...EX-SPEAKER’S PARTY TO GO IT ALONE
By Irina Hovannisian
Former parliament speaker Artur Baghdasarian said on Wednesday that his Orinats Yerkir party, one of the largest in Armenia, will not form an alliance with other opposition groups to contest the May 12 ...U.S. PRESSING FOR TURKISH-ARMENIAN RAPPROCHEMENT
By Emil Danielyan
The United States is pressing Turkey to use a rare opportunity to normalize relations with Armenia that arose after the shock assassination of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink, a senior U.S. official ...GUL WARNS U.S. CONGRESS AGAINST PASSING ARMENIAN GENOCIDE BILL
By Desmond Butler, Associated Press
Turkey's foreign minister warned the U.S. Congress that passing a resolution condemning as genocide the early 20th century killings of up to 1.5 million Armenians would harm relations with his country. ...
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Today in Armenian history- 0 Mehekan was the 7th month in the old Armenian calendar (February 7 to March 8). The month's name is connected to the Armenian for death (mah) because plants and some animals would be in a state of hibernation at this time.
- 1676 Birth of Mkhitar Sebastatsi (cultural and church figure). He founded the Roman Catholoc Mkhitarist Congregation. He died in 1749.
- 1861 Birth in Vagharshapat (Etshmiadsin) of publisher and author of dictionaries, Tigran Navasardian.
- 1887 Birth of Civil War hero and famous Commander Hayk Bjshkyants (Guy) in Tavriz (Iran). In December 1937 he was killed -- a victim of Stalin's terror.
- 1899 The first train arrives at Alexandropol (Gyoomree) from Tbilisi.
- 1925 Opening of the Land-owners' First National Conference in Yerevan.
- 1950 Death of painter Sargis Yerkanian in St Louis (USA).
- 1992 The U.S. Embassy opens in Armenia. It is the first foreign country to set up a diplomatic mission in Armenia.
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