Cem Oezdemir, one of the initiators of the resolution, has received death threats via Twitter, Facebook and email – some of them from Germans with Turkish roots in Germany and others from Turks in Turkey, said Julia Jorch, a spokeswoman for the Greens.
From June 13 to July 2, 2016, the entire Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art (ACCEA) in Yerevan will be subsumed with ethnographic photography and documentation touching upon the little known world of diaspora Armenians during their ‘great’ repatriation to Soviet Armenia after World War II to the early 1970s in an exhibition entitled, Stream of Light. Equally, viewers of the ACCEA will have an opportunity to learn about one of the oldest settlements of Armenians in the diaspora.
In her first public address as Aurora Prize Laureate, Marguerite Barankitse will discuss how grassroots initiatives in conflict-afflicted communities are influencing humanitarian engagement and shifting the rules of engagement.
The President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan on May 20 received the members of the Eurasian Intergovernmental Council and Chairman of the Eurasian Economic Commission Tigran Sargsyan who arrived in Armenia to participate in the regular session of the Eurasian Intergovernmental Council, press service of the Presidential Administration informed 168.am.
The Presidential Administration of Armenia informs the official motto and logo of Pope Francis’s visit to Armenia has been confirmed. The motto is – “Visit to the First Christian country”.
He referred to the fact that nowadays Turkey commits Genocide beyond its borders. “The Turkish assistance to the “Islamic State” can be considered as an action to spread genocide beyond its borders since it results in the killings of the Genocide survivors. We can say the same also in case of the Karabakh attack.
May 19 is the 100th anniversary of the Greek genocide of the Ottoman Empire (Pontic Genocide). Representatives of the Greek community of Armenia, several National Assembly MPs, representatives of the Armenian police and Ministry of Emergency Situations visited Tsitsernakaberd Memorial Complex to respect the memory of the victims of the Greek genocide.
According to him, it is possible that this had a serious impact on Eurobonds of Turkey since Turkish leaders made different speeches over that issue during that time. “Azerbaijan’s Eurobonds were somehow influenced by it, however, we did not have any problems from that perspective”, Javadyan concluded.
On May 20 the regular session of the Eurasian Intergovernmental Council will be held in Armenia with the participation of the heads of the Governments of the EAEU member states.
Such case was most recently witnessed in early April when Azerbaijan launched large-scale military offensive against Nagorno-Karabakh, resulting in many killed and wounded, along with gross violations of international humanitarian law and international human rights law.
