[ last updated 17:04 ] Armenia downplayed on Wednesday the significance of a controversial resolution by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) that criticizes continuing Armenian occupation of Azerbaijani territories around Nagorno-Karabakh.
[ last updated 17:06 ] Azerbaijan is not ready for another war despite its continuing threats to win back Nagorno-Karabakh by force, the commander of the disputed region’s armed forces said on Wednesday.
[ last updated 17:08 ] An aide to President Robert Kocharian claimed on Wednesday that endemic corruption in Armenia has decreased over the past year, disagreeing with domestic and international observers that see little positive change.
[ last updated 17:10 ] An Armenian ultranationalist group on Wednesday strongly condemned the arrest and prosecution of its leader Armen Avetisian over his virulently anti-Semitic statements, describing him as a political prisoner.
[ last updated 17:11 ] Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliev reportedly urged Iran to exert “economic pressure” on Armenia to facilitate a resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict during an official visit to the Islamic Republic which he concluded on Wednesday.
[ last updated 17:13 ] Pressure from Turkey has resulted in the removal of a reference to the Armenian genocide from a German school curriculum, reports said Wednesday.
11 January 2005 -- Watch RFE/RL’s exclusive interview by Harry Tamrazian
with Armenian Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanian, following his meeting with Azerbaijan’s Foreign Minister in Prague to discuss the Nagorno-Karabakh
[ last updated 17:03 ] “Hayots Ashkhar” says that Tuesday’s PACE resolution on Nagorno-Karabakh, which effectively accuses the Armenians of ethnic cleansing, is “on the whole positive.”
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