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RETIRED FM DEFENDS DECADE-LONG POLICIES ON KARABAKH
By Anna Saghabalian
Vartan Oskanian, who stepped down as Armenia’s foreign minister last week after serving for a decade in this capacity, has shrugged off criticism that Armenian diplomacy remained passive during his time ...SPEAKER DOWNBEAT ON PROSPECTS FOR DIALOGUE WITH OPPOSITION
By Ruzanna Khachatrian, and Ruzanna Stepanian in Strasbourg 1
Armenia’s top legislator on Wednesday struck a pessimistic note about the possibility of government forces engaging in dialogue with the part of the opposition represented by former president and defeated ...
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Today in Armenian history- 1879 Death in Moscow (Russia) of Stepanos Nazaryan, editor of the "Aurora Borealis". He was born in 1812.
- 1918 The "Messenger Book" daily is published in Tbilissi (Georgia): the first Soviet newspaper in Armenian.
- 1923 The Soviet of People's Committee of the Armenian SSR creates the State Cinema of Soviet Armenia (HayFilm).
- 1953 Academician Hrachia Atcharyan (linguist) dies in Yerevan. He was born in 1876.
- 1958 Death of composer Vagharshak Srvandztian.
- 1959 The Armenian SSR Supreme Soviet confirms the new Education Policy of Armenia.
- 1984 The US House of Representatives accepts a resolution (number 247) requesting that the Government announce that 1985 04 24 be designated a "National Day of Commemoration of Man's Inhumanity to Man".
- 1984 The Permanent People's Tribunal recognized the Armenian Genocide.
- 1998 An international seminar took place in the Sorbonne (Paris) on the Armenian Genocide. It was organized by the Armenian Revolutionary Federation Party and financed by the See of Cilicia.
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