As to the question on what it means for him to be an Armenian, Aznavour mentioned that being French is much important for him than to be an Armenian but he is an Armenian and he is not going to deny that. “I am Armenian and I am not going to deny that. It will be terrible. I do not like people who hide something because they are afraid of not being welcomed somewhere. You do not like Armenians? I leave, goodbye,” Aznavour mentioned.
The United States today began implementing changes under the Visa Waiver Program Improvement and Terrorist Travel Prevention Act of 2015 (the Act). U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) welcomes more than a million passengers arriving to the United States every day and is committed to facilitating legitimate travel while maintaining the highest standards of security and border protection.
From Leigh and all my colleagues at the U.S. Embassy, I want to thank everyone in Armenia for giving me and Leigh one of the best years of our lives, since we arrived here in February 2015. I arrived with a video in which I quoted an American painter, Rockwell Kent, who described Armenia as a place full of wonders.
We welcome the public commitment of Armenian Government officials, including the Prosecutor General and the Ombudsman for Human Rights, to fully report and investigate credible allegations.
We commend the Armenian people and the government on the peaceful conduct of the constitutional referendum on Sunday, December 6, which took place after an open debate. The change in the form of Armenia’s government that will result from the new constitution is significant.
My four priorities were not intended to be in rank order and are interdependent. And I think that is especially true with these two priorities. To attract business, a country must offer a stable, welcoming environment free of corruption. Foreign businesses large and small vote with their investment dollars; if they see a country with political uncertainty, they either don’t invest at all, or may decide to pull their money out.
Dr. Nelli Babayan is the guest expert at “168 Hours”. She is Fellow at the Transatlantic Academy in Washington, DC, where she studies Russia’s relations with the United States and the European Union.
Prof. Terzian, the David C. Duncan Professor in the Physical Sciences, Department of Astronomy, Cornell University, was awarded to NASA Lifetime Achievement Award. He is one of the prominent modern astronomers, known in the fields of physics of the interstellar medium, planetary nebulae, galaxies, radio astronomy, and others. He is one of the ArAS Co-Presidents and the Chairman of the Research Council of ANSEF.
Yesterday evening, 85 Members of Congress joined in sending a letter to Ambassador James Warlick, U.S. Co-Chair of OSCE Minsk Group which is tasked with finding a resolution to the Nagorno Karabakh conflict. The letter, spearheaded by House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) and Ranking Member Eliot Engel (D-NY), urges Ambassador Warlick to “publicly condemn specific acts of aggression along the line of contact.
On October 15th, 2015, the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights judged the case Perinçek v. Switzerland (application no. 27510/08), holding, by a majority, that there had been a violation of Article 10 (freedom of expression) of the European Convention on Human Rights.
