[ last updated 17:23 ] Armenia on Thursday officially acknowledged its cooperation with U.S. law-enforcement authorities that claim to have smashed a weapons smuggling ring, saying that arrests have been made on Armenian territory as well.
[ last updated 17:26 ] Official Yerevan claimed a major diplomatic victory Thursday, saying the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe has denied Azerbaijan’s allegations that Armenia is encouraging and financing a massive resettlement of Armenians in the occupied Azerbaijani territories around Nagorno-Karabakh.
[ last updated 17:29 ] Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian has come away from a meeting with international mediators without an agreement on the next round of Armenian-Azerbaijani talks on Nagorno-Karabakh that was abruptly cancelled earlier this month, an official said on Thursday.
[ last updated 17:32 ] An ultranationalist Armenian politician who called for the expulsion of all Jews from the country went on trial on Thursday nearly two months after his arrest and prosecution.
[ last updated 17:22 ] “Haykakan Zhamanak” reports that Nagorno-Karabakh President Arkady Ghukasian has left for Moscow to attend a “semi-secret” meeting of leaders of ex-Soviet breakaway regions.
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