Yerevan will never support Turkey’s candidate for OSCE Secretary General, Foreign Ministry saysFebruary 15, 2011 - 17:11 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Spokesperson for the Armenian Foreign Ministry Tigran Balayan told a PanARMENIAN.Net reporter that Yerevan will not support Turkey’s candidate for OSCE Secretary General. Turkey has nominated Ersin Ercin for the post. An Armenian diplomatic source said on February 14 that support to Turkey’s candidate for OSCE Secretary General is inadmissible for Yerevan. “Support is provided to a friendly country, while Turkey is not such. Turkey issued a similar request for several times, but was rejected,” the source said. Haberturk reported that President Abdullah Gul plans to request his Armenian counterpart Serzh Sargsyan to support Turkey’s candidate for OSCE Secretary General, while Turkey’s candidate, ambassador Ersin Ercin will personally hand the letter to President Sargsyan in March. Top stories 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. Michael Roth believes sanctions must be put on the table after Baku‘s ethnic cleansing in Nagorno-Karabakh. Partner news | Police try to impede Armenian Church head’s access to war memorial Police tried to stop the supreme head of the Armenian Apostolic Church, Catholicos Karekin II, from visiting a war memorial. Greece says ready to help as Armenia fights flooding consequences Greece is ready to assist Armenia in combatting the consequences of deadly floods in the country’s north. “He will leave”: Protest leader no longer demands meeting with Pashinyan Archbishop Bagrat Galstanyan no longer demands a meeting with Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan. Lemkin Institute petition seeks release of Armenians in Azerbaijan The Lemkin Institute is deeply concerned about the continued illegal detention of political prisoners from Karabakh in Azerbaijan. |