Fried Did Not Say Whether Bush Will Use Term «Genocide» This YearMarch 16, 2006 - 14:55 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - April 24, 2006 US President George Bush will make his annual speech on the tragic events in Ottoman Turkey in 1915, which resulted in death of 1.5 million people, US Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Daniel Fried stated in Yerevan. Fried answered nothing when asked, whether President Bush will properly acknowledge the genocide. As of the hearsay on recall of US Ambassador to Armenia, the US State Department official remarked he did not see a respective document at the Department. In his turn John Evans only repeated the words, he said a fortnight ago, «I serve my President.» At a meeting with California Armenian community members February 19, 2005 John Evans stated recognition of the Armenian Genocide is important. «Today I will call it Armenian Genocide,» Evans said. In the opinion of State Department officials, Evans did not have the right to make statements of the kind even in his personal capacity. Top stories Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan took to social media to thank his Lithuanian counterpart for the contribution. President of the Armenian parliament Alen Simonyan met with the Speaker of the Azerbaijani Milli Majlis Sahiba Gafarova. Achieving stable peace between Armenia and Azerbaijan remains a priority of the OSCE, said Ian Borg. The Cabinet of Ministers decided on Thursday, November 9 to allocated AMD 120 million to arrange the gathering. Partner news | About 173 million drams and more than 30 beneficiary funds. "The Power of One Dram" is 4 years old In June 2020, the exclusive joint corporate social responsibility initiative of Idram and IDBank "The Power of One Dram" was launched. Aliyev travels to Turkey at Erdogan's invitation On June 10, Azerbaijani President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev will leave for Turkey on a working visit. CSTO budget “to be adjusted due to Yerevan’s non-payment of contributions” The CSTO budget for the current year requires adjustments due to the refusal of Yerevan to pay their share of contributions. Russia sends note of protest to Armenia over envoy’s trip to Ukraine’s Bucha Russia has sent a note of protest to Armenia over the visit of Vladimir Karapetyan and Tigran Ter-Margaryan to Bucha. |