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MERKEL: TURKISH EU MEMBERSHIP WON'T BE AUTOMATIC

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  German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Wednesday that Turkey is not guaranteed an entry into the European Union and that it must meet a series of stringent criteria. Merkel made the remarks during her first speech to the German Parliament to determine the new coalition government's foreign policy.

  The membership negotiations that began on Oct. 3 "are a process with an open end and the outcome cannot be guaranteed in advance," she said. She also pointed out that the negotiations with Turkey could last at least a decade.

• RUSSIAN OFFICIAL: YEREVAN AND BAKU SHOULD FIND MUTUALLY ACCEPTABLE SOLUTION THEMSELVES

  Armenia and Azerbaijan should find a mutually acceptable solution to the Nagorno Karabakh conflict themselves, a spokesman for the Russian Foreign Ministry has said. “Welcoming the continuation of the ...

• MERKEL: TURKISH EU MEMBERSHIP WON'T BE AUTOMATIC

  German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Wednesday that Turkey is not guaranteed an entry into the European Union and that it must meet a series of stringent criteria. Merkel made the remarks during her ...

• ARF DELEGATION PARTICIPATES IN FRENCH SOCIALITS PARTY CONGRESS

• HIGH TURNOUT IN REFERENDUM, OFFICIAL SAYS

• ARMENIAN FM: WE WILL FURTHER SELF-DETERMINATION PRINCIPLE OF ARTSAKH PEOPLE

• POLITICAL COALITION ISSUES STATEMENT OVER CONSTITUTIONAL REFERENDUM RESULTS

• CENTRAL ELECTION COMMISSION OF ARMENIA ANNOUNCES FINAL RESULTS OF CONSTITUTIONAL REFERENDUM

• ROMANIA PUBLIC TV AIRS PROGRAM ON ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

• RA PRESIDENT SIGNED DECREE ON INSTITUTING PRIZE FOR CONTRIBUTION TO ARMENIAN GENOCIDE RECOGNITION

• YEREVAN AND BAKU HAVE NOT RESPONDED OSCE MG PROPOSAL YET

• FM OSKANIAN RECEIVES EUROPEAN COMMISSION DELEGATION

• MERKEL: TURKISH EU MEMBERSHIP WON'T BE AUTOMATIC

• 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 Artsakh’s 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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