President's tour aims at showing the world Armenia's multimillion Diaspora communityOctober 7, 2009 - 19:06 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - "Bilateral concerns over Armenian-Turkish normalization are quite natural," RPA Press Secretary Edward Sharmazanov told a news conference in Yerevan. Highly appreciating President's initiative, he stated he didn't know "any President who'd consider Diaspora's opinion and conduct such policy". President's tour, he said, aims at creating a new discussion format. That means, key issues determining Armenia's future will be discussed beyond country's borders with Diaspora's direct involvement.RPA Press Secretary also criticized some MPs who accuse President of making untrue statements. Besides, he noted that since taking office Serzh Sargsyan has not signed any document related to Armenia whereas it looks as though all agreements, including Kars Treaty were undersigned by him. "The only document so far signed by Armenian President was the 1994 Temporary Ceasefire Agreement between Armenia and Azerbaijan," Sharmazanov said. Commenting on certain pro-opposition figures' advice to "learn lessons from history", he also stated that Armenian authorities will no longer repeat the mistakes of past. "We don't say Turkey is our ally, we just say bilateral normalization without preconditions is key to regional security." If Protocols contained at least one clause posing threat to Armenia, President would have never agreed to talks, Sharmazanov said. He also noted that U.S. President Barrack Obama supported Mr. Sargsyan's initiative on normalizing bilateral ties without preconditions. 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. |