During the NATO parliamentary assembly sitting, Armenian delegates put Turkish FM Mevlut Cavusoglu in a ridiculous situation, who held a Q&A with lawmakers after delivering a report. During a briefing on November 25 in the Parliament, head of the Armenian delegation to NATO PA Koryun Nahapetyan said Cavusoglu spoke about frozen conflicts in his report, and mentioned the Nagorno Karabakh conflict.
“There is a greater threat that the conflict could evolve I mean the small conflict could become a large-scale one. But still I don’t think that will happen by an accident. I will disagree with the worries of the civil society organizations. I worry that one side will feel provoked and design a military action.”
The European Parliament adopted the proposal on freezing Turkey’s EU membership talks, Anadolu reports. 479 MEPs voted in favor of the proposal, 37 were against. 107 MEPs abstained. Although this is non-binding proposal, it is an important message to the EU and the leadership of the Union’s member states.
Besides the technical issue, ideological issue is existent as well: how will be elections held in Yerevan? What changes does Armenian president promise? How justified those promises are? Forthcoming elections are going to show that. I consider, after that the date of signing will be shaped,” Laure Delcour said.
“Firstly, let me clarify that the statement by Fars wasn’t official—it was making reference to its own sources. However, upon information at my disposal, Rouhani will visit Yerevan by the end of this year.”
“There is an impetus from the side of the Armenia’s Government, that the agreement will be signed in the spring of the forthcoming year. I would single out the point on visa facilitation from the agreement to be signed with the EU, I share big desire of Armenian citizens to travel to Europe by a facilitated procedure.”
Warlick said he will work in Egorov Puginsky Afanasiev & Partners in Washington, responsible for working with U.S. and international clients, development of strategic client relationships, legislation and public policy.
” First, I think Trump administration is going to be vastly more focused on domestic affairs, than on foreign policy. I also think that what we’ve seen so far suggests that Mr. Trump even more than Mr. Obama is someone who believes that the world is so organized around various powers and that the U.S. should primarily deal with the major powers of the world, rather than with the lesser powers.”
“After a generation we will come to the point, that people (in former USSR countries) will stop speaking Russian. For this reason it’s necessary to exert special efforts,” Mitrofanova said, adding that Russia should be granted a legal status in former USSR countries.
“After 2-3 more stages we’ll finalize the negotiations, I don’t consider that more will be required. As soon as we finalize the negotiations, Armenia will be ready to sign the agreement. The EU will need the process of internal accord. We are sure, that the process will be speedy and the EU will be ready to sign, and we’ll sign that framework agreement.”
