Starting November 9, 2015, the U.S. Embassy in Armenia will be changing its visa procedures to make it easier for approved visa applicants to pick up their visas and for certain current visa holders to renew their visas. There is no additional cost for this improved service.
On November 5, in accordance with the arrangement reached with the authorities of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic, the OSCE Mission will conduct a planned monitoring of the Line of Contact between the armed forces of Nagorno Karabakh and Azerbaijan in the eastern direction of the Talish village of the NKR Martakert region.
As relations between Israel and Turkey have become increasingly strained in recent years, shifting from strategic alliance to outright hostility, many analysts began to wonder about the Israeli government’s uncharacteristically muted reaction to Turkish Pres. Erdogan’s anti-Semitic diatribes and anti-Israeli actions.
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.
The Opera House in Yerevan, St. Gregory Cathedral (Zvartnots) in Vagharshapat (5-7th centuries), Tufenkian Old Dilijan Complex in Dilijan (19-20th centuries) and the Monument “Mother Armenia” in Gyumriare among the list of over 200 iconic monuments, buildings, museums, bridges and other landmarks in nearly 60 countries around the world that were lit up blue on October 23-24.
Pres. Sargsyan stated several years ago that he leaves the pursuit of Armenian territorial claims to a future generation, which implies that Armenia does indeed have territorial demands from Turkey!
Aviation, energy efficiency and environment will also be areas of joint work for the EU and Armenia. The EU will use the European Neighbourhood Investment Facility to provide loans from European financial institutions in particular to improve interconnections and market access.
The U.S. Embassy in Yerevan hosted a delegation of academics and policy experts, who specialize in clean energy development. The group of subject-matter experts, a Partnership Opportunity Delegation organized by the State Department’s Office of Global Partnerships, was in Armenia for a three-day exploratory session where they discussed issues around Armenia’s renewable energy and energy efficiency sectors.
Indeed, on September 22, Rapporteur of PACE Robert Walter sent a letter to the NKR authorities asking to assist in visiting Artsakh. In response we communicated to Mr. Walter the position of the NKR on the issue.
