Lusine Sarkisyan

Georgian government reshuffled

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International Monetary Fund to prop up Ukraine and Belarus

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Senior Turkish official: “Armenians aren’t our enemies”

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Compare & Contrast: Barack Obama and Joe Biden vs. John McCain and Sarah Palin

Oct 31, 2008: View the positions of the two major-party presidential and vice presidential nominees on issues of concern to Armenian-American voters  more...

Armenian-Americans rally around Barack Obama for president

Oct 31, 2008: The campaign of Barack Obama, Democrat of Illinois, and Senator Joe Biden of Delaware to become the next president and vice president of the United States has gained strong support throughout the Armenian-American community.  more...

Mexico's ambassador to the United States discusses his Armenian heritage

Oct 29, 2008: In an October 9 interview with Arturo Sarukhán Casamitjana, Mexico’s ambassador to the United States, the Armenian Reporter’s Washington Editor Emil Sanamyan and intern Lusine Sarkisyan asked him about his unique family history, his thoughts on Armenia, and Mexico’s foreign policy priorities vis-à-vis the United States.  more...

Media watchdog: peace is good for press freedom

Oct 25, 2008: "It is not economic prosperity but peace that guarantees press freedom," Paris-based Reporters without Borders argues in its annual report released on October 22.  more...

151 countries vote Turkey into the UN Security Council

Oct 25, 2008: Turkey successfully concluded its five-year $50 million campaign for a two-year nonrenewable term on the United Nations Security Council, as it was voted in by 151 countries on October 17, Turkish and international news agencies reported.  more...

Abkhazia, South Ossetia status talks stall; more aid pledged to Georgia

Oct 25, 2008: European, Georgian, Russian, and U.S. officials met in Geneva on October 15 to start discussions, in the words of the French President Nicolas Sarkozy, on the "future status" of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, and quickly adjourned until November, Civil.ge and others reported.  more...

Active U.S. diplomacy continues in Eurasia

Oct 25, 2008: Assistant Secretary of State Dan Fried was in Armenia (Oct. 17), Georgia (Oct.18-20), and Turkey (Oct. 21) to discuss regional conflicts and bilateral relations, local news media reported. United States regional diplomacy has been stepped up significantly since Russian-Georgian fighting in August.  more...

European MPs: Georgia, Russia both guilty in Ossetia war

Oct 11, 2008: The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) adopted a resolution on October 2 that called for an “independent international investigation into what happened” in and around South Ossetia last August, “since the facts surrounding the outbreak of war between Georgia and Russia are disputed.”  more...

Azerbaijani government seeks “diaspora” presence in Washington

Oct 11, 2008: Azerbaijani officials, Azerbaijanis resident in the United States, and others met on October 1-2 in Washington to discuss ways to establish a more effective "diaspora" presence in Washington that could counter the influence of the Armenian community.  more...

U.S., Azerbaijan calibrating ties after Georgia war

Oct 11, 2008: Deputy Secretary John Negroponte, the State Department's second most senior official, went to Azerbaijan on October 2 in an apparent effort to safeguard plans for Caspian natural gas to flow to Europe via Georgia and Turkey.  more...

David Krikorian in tight race for Ohio congressional seat

Oct 11, 2008: Cincinnati-area business­person David Krikorian is making the strongest non­party bid for the House of Representatives this year, according to RealClearPolitics.com  more...

Russia touts self-determination in “mini-empires”

Oct 07, 2008: Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov of Russia on September 24 spoke at length on nations’ right to self-determination.  more...

Coming up: Armenian prime minister plans U.S. visit

Oct 06, 2008: Prime Minister Tigran Sarkisian will visit Washington between October 9 and 14. Mr. Sarkisian will participate in the annual meetings of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund on October 11–13.  more...

Senior U.S., Russian, and Turkish officials mark Armenia’s independence

Oct 06, 2008: Ambassador Nabi Sensoy of Turkey was among more than 100 guests at a reception on September 30, 2008, at the Armenian Embassy in Washington to mark Armenia's independence.  more...

U.S. Ambassador-Designate to Turkey clarifies position on Genocide

Oct 04, 2008: U.S. ambassadors to Ottoman Turkey Henry Morgenthau (1913–16) and Abram Elkus (1916–17) and other contemporary U.S. diplomats described in their communications “an attempt to exterminate the Armenian population,” ambassador-designate to Turkey James Jeffrey noted in a written response to questions for the record from Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chair and vice-presidential candidate Sen. Joe Biden (D.-Del.)  more...

Artsakh’s freedom celebrated on Capitol Hill

Sep 27, 2008: About 100 supporters of Artsakh attended a September 19 Capitol Hill program that featured remarks by members of Congress, a keynote address by community activist and lawyer Mark Geragos, and calls for formal U.S. recognition and greater assistance to the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, Lusine Sarkisyan and Emil Sanamyan report. The event, “Nagorno Karabakh Republic/Artsakh: 20 Years of Freedom, Democracy, and Progress,” was hosted by the co-chairs of the Congressional Armenian Caucus in cooperation with the NKR Office in the United States and the Embassy of the Republic of Armenia.  more...

Ambassador Harry Gilmore: The United States will oppose a Russian sphere of influence

Sep 27, 2008: Harry Gilmore, former U.S. ambassador to Armenia (1993–95) spoke with the Armenian Reporter’s Emil Sanamyan and Lusine Sarkisyan on September 16 about ongoing U.S.-Russian tension over Georgia and its implications, Turkey’s position on the matter, and Armenia’s latest effort to normalize relations with Turkey. Arguing that Russia’s assertiveness is borne out of years of frustration with West, Ambassador Gimore also suggested that by pushing the idea that it has a sphere of influence, Russia would get a negative reaction from the political class of the United States.  more...

Seeking to overtake Armenia in rating, Azerbaijan improves business regulation

Sep 23, 2008: World Bank staff was approached by Azerbaijani officials several months ago with a mandate from the Azerbaijani president to do everything necessary to overtake Armenia in the Doing Business ranking.  more...

Russia sends aircraft, naval vessels to the Americas

Sep 23, 2008: In a dramatic shift of military posture reminiscent of the height of the Cold War, last week two Russian strategic bombers flew for 13 hours over the Arctic and the Atlantic to land in Venezuela.  more...

Members mobilize congressional support for additional U.S. aid to Armenia

Sep 23, 2008: Reps. Frank Pallone (D.-N.J.) and George Radanovich (R.-Calif.) have called on colleagues to co-sign a letter they will send to President Bush arguing for additional U.S. aid to Armenia to offset the damages its economy has suffered as a result of interruptions in cross-Georgia trade since last month.  more...