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                                                                                               European Commission Press release Brussels, 24 July 2013 EU and Armenia Agree Trade Deal The European Union and the Republic of Armenia today successfully concluded negotiations on a Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area (DCFTA), as part of the Association Agreement between the EU and the Republic of Armenia. At ...

Armenia’s cooperation with the outer world is complicated by the closed communications, political scientist, Director of the Caucasus Institute Alexander Iskandaryan told reporters in Yerevan in commenting on the possibility of opening of the Armenian-Turkish border following Vilnius summit. The closed border with Turkey causes problems for Armenian economy, he added. “I think Europe will put no pressure on ...

  For many years in Turkey, conversations became awkward if they turned to defining what used to be called the “events of 1915”. Basically, I had read one set of history books, which discussed the genocidal deaths of 1-1.5 million Armenians who died in the Ottoman Empire during the First World War deportations. Most Turks had read a completely different set of books. If there was a mention of the Armen ...

Armenia "should know the limits of its capacity," Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu warned Yerevan yesterday, referring to territorial claims recently made by the country’s prosecutor general, as he paid a one-day visit to neighboring Azerbaijan at a critical time. The foreign minister called on “those who dare to take a pebble from Turkey” to know their limits, according to remarks reported by Anadolu Agenc ...

"Paving the Way for Turkish-Armenian Reconciliation: A Personal Account", by Burcu Gultekin Punsmann ...

President of Turkey Abdullah Gul visited Stanford University within the framework of his visit to the United States. In his speech on leadership, Gul mentioned about his visit to Armenia.   He noted that sometimes a good leader must take risks and his own risk in foreign relations came especially when he visited Yerevan upon the invitation of the Armenian President to watch Armenia-Turkey football matc ...

  ‘If we can solve Karabakh, Turkey can open border’ ‘If we can solve Karabakh, Turkey can open border’ Vartan Oskanian, former Foreign Minister of Armenia (1998-2008), founder of the Civilitas Foundation and member of the Prosperous Armenia Party, has said that if the problem over the Nagorno-Karabakh could be solved by Armenia and Azerbaijan, then Turkey could open its border with Armenia. “The Armenian g ...