... the Armenian Church and church circles. Obviously, this was not purely for curiosity purposes, but rather, it was prompted by the new relationship and understanding between Armenia and Diaspora. As ...
Window view of the Armenian Church, Vol. 4, No. 4, 1994
UNITY EFFORTS BETWEEN EASTERN AND ORIENTAL ORTHODOX CHURCHES
A Conversation with Archbishop Aram Keshishian (now Catholicos Aram I of Cilicia) Moderator of World Council of Churches and Prelate of the Armenian Church in Lebanon
... interest in Turkey and withdrew from the field. However, as Armenians scattered throughout the world, so did Armenian Protestant congregations, which can be found in large Armenian communities in the Diaspora. ...
When recently Azerbaijani President Heydar Aliyev invited ArmenianPresident Robert Kocharian to attend an EU-sponsored internationalconference in Baku, to discuss prospects for the successfulimplementation of the TRACECA (Transport Corridor Europe CaucasusAsia) program, many observers and analysts were caught off guard.
Reuters' journalistic objectivity and reputation have become questionable in the wake of its deeply biased coverage of the recent presidential elections in Armenia.
... If the current poor conditions continue, I am afraid more people would leave and the pace of migration will increase. That is why the Diaspora should do everything to improve the socio-economic conditions ...
... facing the new president:
1. Economy. Despite some success in economic stabilization and institutional reform, bilateral and multilateral aid and diaspora financial inflows remain vital. Popular frustration ...
... It was reopened 1945 after decades of communist oppression, and has trained hundreds of clerics, many of whom continue to serve in various regions of Armenia, the "near abroad" and the international diaspora ...
... republic, the 'near abroad', and the diaspora were represented a the ceremony by 400 delegates from over 32 countries. The event represented many historical firsts. The National Ecclesiastical Assembly, ...
Weeks of political crisis in Armenia took a sharp turn when President Levon Ter-Petrosian announced his resignation on February 3. Forces opposed to Ter- Petrosian's compromise stance on Nagorno-Karabakh appear set for ascendancy in Armenia for some time.
... of Azerbaijan, was a major victory for Armenia and the Diaspora’s Armenian lobby. Congress not only preserved the ban on direct U.S. government aid to Azerbaijan, it also approved $12.5 million for direct ...
... was one of several diaspora Armenians to have played a prominent part in Armenia's foreign policy. Born in Beirut, Libaridian is a US citizen and will now return to the United States. Other diaspora Armenians ...
War Report, No. 56, November 1997 (c) Copyright: The Institute for War and Peace Reporting 1997
Nagorno Karabakh: A Time for Thoughtfulness?
Beneath the surface, new and possibly constructive positions are being tested
By Hratch Tchilingirian
The conflict between Armenians and Azerbaijanis over Nagorno Karabakh has resisted attempts at a solution since the Karabakh Armenians' independence movement emerged in 1988. Over two dozen OSCE sponsored negotiations, initiated since 1992, have failed to resolve the oldest conflict in the former Soviet Union. The last formal talks between the parties to the conflict under the auspices of the Minsk Group were almost a year ago. Meanwhile, Azerbaijan and Karabakh Armenians are as far apart from each other on key issues as they were five years.
War Report, No. 34, June 1995 (c) Copyright: The Institute for War and Peace Reporting 1995
Edging Towards the Big Agreement
by Hratch Tchilingirian
The dispute between Armenians and Azerbaijanis over Nagorno Karabakh–a small enclave of 4388 square kilometres in Azerbaijan, with a population of about 150,000–is the oldest conflict in the former Soviet Union. By 1991, what started as a popular movement for self-determination in 1988 had turned into a full-scale war with far reaching political and military implications for the region. The situation in Karabakh was further complicated by the fact that both parties in the conflict--the Armenians of Karabakh and the Republic of Azerbaijan--consider Karabakh an integral part of their territory. In September 1991, the Armenians of Karabakh declared an independent Republic of Mountainous Karabakh. No state has recognised Karabakh's claim to independent statehood. While the war is not officially over, May 12, 1995 marked the first anniversary of the cease-fire in Karabakh, after six years of armed conflict and bloodshed.
War Report, No. 50, April 1997 (c) Copyright: The Institute for War and Peace Reporting 1997
Internationalising the Enclave
By Hratch Tchilingirian
With the collapse of the Soviet Union, the dispute over Nagorno-Karabakh was transformed from a domestic Soviet conflict into an international issue. Besides Russia, a number of countries--including regional players such as Turkey and Iran--and international organisations proposed various unsuccessful initiatives. The most important of these, if not the most successful, has been the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), which, since the summer of 1992, has been actively facilitating negotiations in the form of its 11-state Minsk Group, whose co-chairmanship became a triumvirate of Russia, France and the US earlier this year.
... on Diaspora life and relations with Armenia)
(PDF version) ::/introtext:: ::fulltext::Արին (Arin, monthly magazine, Beirut), January-February 1997.
«Հայրենիքի գոյութիւնը որեւէ Սփիւռքի համար անոր ...
(c) Copyright Oxford Analytica 1996 - December 6, 1996
ARMENIA/AZERBAIJAN: Nagorno-Karabakh Impasse
[Hratch Tchilingirian]
The Lisbon summit of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe, which ended on December 3, failed to resolve the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
... aucun lien ou quelque soutien que ce soit parmi les Arméniens de Turquie, et n’a même eu qu’un soutien minimum parmi les Arméniens de la diaspora.)
Comme les questions devenaient de plus en plus agressives, ...
Armenian International Magazine (AIM), Vol. 12, Issue 3, April 2001, pp. 30-36
THE FORGOTTEN DIASPORA Bulgarian-Armenians after the end of Communism
By Hratch Tchilingirian
"As long as my neighbor is worse, I don’t have to be better," goes the Bulgarian saying. When faced with enormous problems, a sense of relative wellness might provide temporary comfort. A decade after the fall of Communism, Bulgarian-Armenians describe the current state of their community with both pessimism and hope -- and offer many ideas for a preferred future.