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US DEPARTMENT OF STATE SEES MILITARY SOLUTION TO KARABAKH CONFLICT
- The US Department of State has ruled out the possibility of achieving a military solution to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. At a daily briefing on Wednesday, Spokesperson Victoria Nuland called upon the conflicting parties to prepare their people's for peace. "As a Co-Chair of the OSCE Minsk Group, the United States remains firmly committed to assisting the sides in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict reach a lasting and peaceful settlement. There is no military solution to this conflict. We urge the sides to prepare their populations for peace, not war, and to refrain from any provocative rhetoric or actions on the ground," she said, when asked to comment on the opinions suggesting a military solution.
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Armenia will become a reliable consumer market when Armenia's consumers become "savvier," Melita Hakobyan, Head of the National Academy of Consumers of Armenia (NACA), told journalists Thursday, on the ...STRUGGLE GOES BETWEEN HUMAN CHARACTERS, NOT PARTIES, SAYS POLITICIAN
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The present politico-economic developments in Armenia make the European Union (EU) consider cooperation with the country possible. The Armenia-EU deep and comprehensive free trade agreement is a component ...GEORGIAN PRESIDENT, GERMAN FM DISCUSS NATO MEMBERSHIP ISSUES
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Today in Armenian history- 1854 England, France, and Turkey, declare war on Russia.
- 1862 Birth of Grigoris Galemkarian in Constantinople, media historian, linguist, bibliographer and member of the Mkhitarist Congregation in Vienna.
- 1869 Birth of Vaseelee Bartold in St. Petersburg, oriental studies scholar and academician. Many of his studies are devoted to Armenian subjects. In the Encyclopedia of Islam, he published a series of articles on mediaeval Armenian cities.
- 1880 First publication of the "Crown" (weekly) in Yerevan. Vasak Papaganyan is the editor.
- 1891 Death of writer Khachatur Meessakyan.
- 1907 Death of Hambardzoom Alatjatjyan, the editor of "Poonj" daily.
- 1920 Opening of the Jury Court in Yerevan.
- 1921 Soghomon Tehlirian executes Talaat Pasha in his hiding place in Berlin (Germany). Talaat was one of the perpetrators of the 1915 Armenian Genocide which killed about one million Armenians. Tehlirian was tried and found innocent of murder because of the nature of the person he killed. Despite this, today, Talaat is revered in Turkey.
- 1924 Yerevan's cotton factory starts operations.
- 1935 Birth of Leonid Yengibaryan (circus actor). He died in 1972.
- 1954 The first group of Armenia's "komsomols" go to work Kazakhstan's new agricultural lands.
- 1959 Fifth election of the Armenian Supreme Council.
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