[ last updated 15:55 ] The Armenian authorities have done little to combat illegal trafficking of hundreds and possibly thousands of Armenian women abroad for sexual exploitation despite their persistent claims to the contrary, according to the findings of a nearly year-long journalistic investigation.
[ last updated 16:11 ] Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Wednesday an Armenian campaign to have the massacre of Armenians by Ottoman Turks recognized internationally as genocide is an obstacle to establishing formal relations between the two neighbors.
[ last updated 16:14 ] The Armenian government has asked the Constitutional Court to curtail modest powers enjoyed by the country’s top human rights official after failing to push the highly controversial measure through parliament.
[ last updated 16:16 ] A 27-year-old son of Prime Minister Andranik Markarian is on course to become the youngest head of an Armenian local government as a result of an election in Yerevan’s Avan administrative district to be held next month.
[ last updated 15:54 ] “Hayots Ashkhar” finds President Robert Kocharian’s response to Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s letter “dignified and forward-looking.”
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
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