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- EDWARD NALBANDYAN IN HELSINKI
Currently the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Armenia Edward Nalbandyan is in three-day working visit in Helsinki. Minister Nalbandyan will take part in the Ministerial Assembly of the OSCE member countries; he will also have a meeting with the secretary
- EU proposes deeper ties to six ex-Soviet nations
The proposed new "Eastern Partnership" with Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Ukraine, Moldova and Belarus offers free trade deals, closer energy ties, easier access to visas and financial assistance programs.
- Caucasus Platform heads of state to meet in Helsinki
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Months of effort by Ankara to bring Turkey, Armenia, Russia, Azerbaijan and Georgia together around the same table have finally yielded a concrete result with a technical-level meeting between these five countries to be held in Helsinki
- Middendorp Back in Africa
Former Kaizer Chiefs and Armenia Bielefeld coach Ernst Middendorp is back in Africa and could be on AshantiGold's bench in a crucial league game against Kumasi Asante Kotoko in Ghana. The German mentor arrived in Accra at the weekend fueling speculation
- Caucasus platform to have first meeting in Helsinki
Months of effort by Ankara to bring Turkey, Armenia, Russia, Azerbaijan and Georgia together around the same table have finally yielded a concrete result with a technical-level meeting between these five countries to be held in Helsinki later this week.
- Armenian Church Complex to be reconstructed in Cyprus
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The Armenian Prelature of Cyprus has announced that the team of experts of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) ACT will present to the Armenian community of Cyprus the final design for the restoration of the Turkish-occupied
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An Orthodox Christian country, Armenia was incorporated into Russia in 1828 and the USSR in 1920. Armenian leaders remain preoccupied by the long conflict with Azerbaijan over Nagorno-Karabakh, a primarily Armenian-populated exclave, assigned to Soviet Azerbaijan in the 1920s by Moscow. Armenia and Azerbaijan began fighting over the exclave in 1988; the struggle escalated after both countries attained independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. By May 1994, when a cease-fire took hold, Armenian forces held not only Nagorno-Karabakh but also a significant portion of Azerbaijan proper. The economies of both sides have been hurt by their inability to make substantial progress toward a peaceful resolution.
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