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ARMENIAN FOREIGN MINISTER IN TURKEY SEEKING TO NORMALIZE RELATIONS
(dpa)
Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian arrived in Istanbul on Monday where he will hold talks with his Turkish counterpart Ali Babacan aimed at normalizing relations between the historic foes, the ...
ARMENIA SET TO START POWER SUPPLY TO TURKEY
By Ruben Meloyan
In what is seen as the first step towards establishing direct trade links between Yerevan and Ankara, a senior Armenian government official has announced his side's readiness to start supplying electricity ...
STRASBOURG OFFICIAL SAYS ARMENIA COMING SHORT OF PACE EXPECTATIONS
By Karine Kalantarian
Armenia has thus far mostly failed to comply with the repeated demands of the Council of Europe in its current handling of the post-election crisis, said Thomas Hammarberg, the Council of Europe's commissioner ...

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1895 Birth of Hrachia Nerssissyan (actor). He died in 1961.
1913 Death of H.F.B. Lynch in London of Irish parentage. Besides his study of law, he became noted as a writer, a geographer, a politician, and a traveller, with a keen interest in Armenia. His two-volume book on his Armenia travels is a classic and describes life in Armenia at the end of the 19th century. In 1906, he was elected to serve as a member of the British Parliament. (He was born on 1862 04 18).
1920 The Tashnak government of Armenia falls. Simon Vratsian forms a new government.
1927 Death of Shooshanik Kiurghinyan (poetess) in Yerevan. She was born in 1876.
1940 Ceremonial inauguration of Lenin's monument, at Lenin Square in Yerevan.
1940 Yerevan's Zoological Garden is created.
1980 Opening of the meeting (in Yerevan) of Diasporan Armenian representatives.
1996 Robert Kocharian is re-elected for a second term as President of Artsakh. International observers witness the election.

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