“The City adopted a law on the recognition of the Armenian Genocide. Unfortunately, Brazil has not so far recognized the Armenian Genocide on a federal level. We actively work in that direction, but the success is still on the municipal level. New recognitions are expected in the near future by other Brazilian cities,” Sargis Karamekian said.
“What should I apologize for? I’m not going to apologize, I’ve repeatedly stated on it. I’m not going to change this position. It’s well known. There is no military settlement.
The European Union is launching a grant program worth 1.5 million euros designed to strengthen the capacity of Armenian civil society, the head of the EU Delegation to Armenia, Piotr Switalski, told journalists on Monday.
Former US president Bill Clinton has been spending some time with predecessor George H W Bush and wife Barbara in Houston, reports the Telegraph.
Russia was “in an inch from the confrontation” with the United States following the US missile strike on the Syrian Ash Sha’irat airfield, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said Monday.
Authorities in Beijing have announced a new program of monetary compensation to citizens of up to 500 thousand yuan (72,4 thousand dollars) for providing information about the activities of spies and foreign intelligence agencies, follows from the relevant decision by the public security Bureau of Beijing, distributed by the Chinese media, reports BBC.
One sees what is happening in Turkey right now, how Turkey is dealing with its own minorities, the type of language that the President of Turkey is using in regards to non-Muslim Europe, it all reflects the same narrow, ethno-religious nationalism that prevailed there 100 years ago.
According to the Italian Foreign Ministry’s press service, the meeting will be held on Tuesday morning when the foreign ministers of the G7 countries (the US, Canada, Japan, Germany, the UK, France and Italy) will be joined by the top diplomats of the Middle East region.
Uzbekistan’s national Rakhmat Akilov, detained in Sweden’s capital of Stockholm after the recent terrorist attack, has pleaded guilty during an interrogation at Kronoberg prison, the Aftonbladet reported.
At the G7 foreign ministers’ meeting in Italy’s Lucca, British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson will call on the G7 member states to tighten sanctions against Russia following the latest developments in Syria, The Times reports.
