16:46 07/09/2010

D. Babayan: A democratic state cannot be annexed with a totalitarian country in modern world

“We draw several conclusions from the report; it is the first-ever unbiased document on the situation in Azerbaijan mentioning that Azerbaijan is an oligarch-clan state, a country peculiar to east monarchy. And it is praiseworthy,” spokesman for Artsakh Republic President David Babayan told a panorama.am correspondent commenting upon the International Crisis Group (ICG) Report on Azerbaijan. “Meanwhile I must say that the very International Crisis Group has already made ...

15:48 07/09/2010

Azerbaijani MP calls Russia's Medvedev a "lad"

Azerbaijani MP Elman Mammedov has made a remark which could raise diplomatic clamour. Mammedov has called Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, who was paying official visit to Baku, a “gyada” (lad), Azadlig informs quoting Modern.az. “Russian Embassy in Baku will probably respond to the remark made by Azeri MP. Azerbaijani late MP Shamil Gurbanov had insulted Former French President Jacques Chirac saying: “Jacques Chirac suffers from rabies” which had raised ...

15:41 07/09/2010

Iranian analyst: Turkey is not capable of affecting Iran’s nuclear problem

Turkey is not capable of seriously affecting Iran’s nuclear problem. Turkey rather attempts to show that it also plays role in international issues, Bahram Amir-Ahmadian, Iran-Russia affairs analyst, told irdiplomacy.ir website. “Turkey seems to be willing to prefer commodity circulation with Iran to that of with U.S., or announces it will not join UN economic sanctions against Iran, but all this is merely propaganda, Turkey declares it to please Iran,” analyst said. ...

14:04 07/09/2010

Armenian MFA spokesman: Azerbaijani official obviously misleads the public

“Over the recent years, the Presidents and Foreign Ministers of the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairing states, as well as the Foreign Ministers of the OSCE member-states have adopted several resolutions on ministerial level, clearly indicating the main issue of the negotiation process, Nagorno-Karabakh’s status determined by a legally-binding expression of will. However, Azerbaijan is making vain attempts to divert the international community’s attention from this issue,” ...

12:35 07/09/2010

Top Three Armenian Church Leaders Boycott Turkish Show in Akhtamar

 The Turkish scheme of luring Armenian Church leaders to participate in a religious show at Holy Cross (Sourp Khach) Church on Akhtamar Island, Lake Van, backfired last week. The heads of three Hierarchical Sees of the Armenian Church -- in Armenia, Lebanon, and Jerusalem -- will neither attend nor send representatives to the celebration of Divine Liturgy at Holy Cross Church on September 19. All three turned down the invitation of Archbishop Aram Ateshyan, Deputy Patriarch of ...

12:11 07/09/2010

U.N. alarmed with Iran’s stockpiling program

Toughened international sanctions do not stop Iran from stockpiling enriched uranium, “Washington post” cites U.N. report which raises concerns about the ability to monitor parts of the nation's nuclear program that could be used to make a bomb. The International Atomic Energy Agency said Monday quantities of certain nuclear materials cannot be confirm, since they have a growing list of unanswered questions about enrichment sites and disagrees sharply with Iran's recent ...

12:09 07/09/2010

Murad Muradyan appointed Armenia’s Ambassador to Iraq

President Serzh Sargsyan signed a decree on appointing Murad Muradyan as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Armenia to the Republic of Iraq (seat in Baghdad), President’s press office reported.

11:15 07/09/2010

Putinun certain with 2012 elections

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Monday he had not yet decided whether to run in the 2012 presidential election. Putin, speaking to the Valdai discussion group of Russia experts in the Black Sea resort of Sochi, said the decision on whether to run would depend on the situation in the country.   “Roosevelt was elected four times in a row because it didn’t contradict the American constitution,” Putin said: “Neither President Medvedev ...

11:01 07/09/2010

Turkish delegation in Iraq to last ceasefire with Kurds

A pro-Kurdish delegation consisting of Turkish political figures met Iraq’s president Monday to discuss the cease-fire of the outlawed Kurdistan Worker’s Party, or PKK, which ends Sept. 20, as well as a long-awaited “Kurdish Conference,” Hurriyet Daily news reported. The politicians, including Ahmet Turk, the former leader of the disbanded Democratic Society Party, or DTP, and Aysel Tugluk, former DTP deputy, who are both co-chairs of the pro-Kurdish ...

10:37 07/09/2010

Islamist threat in Germany growing

The threat of Islamist attacks in Germany is growing as numbers of people returning from militant camps on the Afghan-Pakistan border rise, a senior police official said. Joerg Ziercke, head of the BKA Federal Crime Office, was also quoted Sunday as saying that curbs on storing telecoms data were hurting efforts to track militant suspects. More than 400 Islamists were living in Germany, some of whom had trained in camps, including a hard core with combat experience in Afghanistan.

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