Bishop Sahag Maşalyan has been elected the 85th Armenian Patriarch of Constantinople. The final election for the Patriarch took place this morning at the Armenian Patriarchate of Constantinople. A total of 119 delegates elected the new Armenian Patriarch of Constantinople.
Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted to impose sanctions against Turkey. Committee members voted in favor of the resolution 18-4 to send the bipartisan measure to full Senate. The U.S. House of Representatives passed its own Turkey sanctions
In September 2015, the UN General Assembly, at the initiative of Armenia, decided to declare December 9 as International Day of Commemoration and Dignity of the Victims of the Crime of Genocide and of the Prevention of this Crime. The day was chosen because that day in 1948, the General Assembly adopted the Convention on …
After the constitutional amendments of 2015, at least five values, such as culture, science, education, the Armenian language and spiritual heritage, are protected by the state. No norms that contradict these values can be adopted by laws or other normative acts, as they will contradict the Constitution, said a former member of the Supreme Judicial …
Legendary explorer Gohar Vardanyan has passed away. This is what writer and publicist Gurgen Khazhakyan wrote on his Facebook page. Gohar Vardanyan was born on January 25, 1926 in Gyumri. In the early 1930s, she and her family moved to Iran.
Statement by the International independent legal Center for the expertise of reparations in connection with the adoption by the US Congress of the Resolution on recognition of the Genocide of armenians (The text is written in
In light of the further advancement of the international recognition of the Armenian Genocide, the President of Republic of Turkey recently made controversial statements, which distort the reality, Armenian Foreign Ministry said in a statement. “These statements contain claims aimed at justifying the Genocide by means of insulting the dignity of the victims. On April …
In a prelude to the Holocaust and the crimes of ISIS, the slaughter of Armenians was an opening to a hundred years of similar mass murder events, Jerusalem Post editorial reported as authors urge the government of their country to recognize the Armenian Genocide. The article talks about the systematic killings of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire.
Senator Lindsey Graham’s presence at the White House meeting between President Donald Trump and the Turkish leader was not absolutely accidental given that the US legislator himself later blocked the passage of an Armenian Genocide resolution by the upper house, according to Ruben Safrastyan, the director of the National Academy’s Institute of Oriental Studies.
Senate Foreign Relations Committee Ranking Member Robert Menendez asked for a “unanimous consent” vote to immediately adopt the Armenian Genocide Resolution, the Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA) reported. Menendez took to the floor an hour after Turkey’s President Erdogan appearance in a joint White House press conference with President Trump,
