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24 December 2009 [17:15]
Prime Minister of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, Dervis Eroglu, has arrived in Turkish capital of Ankara on Thursday.
24 December 2009 [16:35]
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24 December 2009 [16:15]
The Upper Lars checkpoint on the Georgia-Russia border will likely open in March, Georgian Deputy Foreign Minister Nino Kalandadze said today at a briefing in Tbilisi.
24 December 2009 [15:50]
The National Assembly of Armenia (parliament) will not discuss the protocols on normalization of relations with Turkey unless they are ratified by Turkish parliament, Armenian parliament's Speaker Ovik Abrahamyan said.
24 December 2009 [15:45]
A regional governor said on Thursday that Turkey would open an Armenian church in an eastern city to worship in 2010.
24 December 2009 [15:40]
Trial of the French national, Clotilde Reiss, who is currently on trial on charges of action against Iran's national security, will continue for one more session, her attorney Mohammad Ali Mahdavi Sabet announced.
24 December 2009 [15:20]
24 December 2009 [15:13]
As of December 23, a total of 107 swine flu cases, including two deaths are registered in Armenia, the Assistant to Armenian Health Minister Shushan Hunanyan said.
24 December 2009 [14:51]
A senior Republican senator is urging the Obama administration and European allies to consider rearming Georgia, an action that would inevitably upset Russia.
24 December 2009 [14:17]
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24 December 2009 [13:48]
Tbilisi City Court has chosen a measure of two-month detention for another man participating in explosion of Glory Memorial in Kutaisi - Chief of the mobile station "Georvzrivprom" Elguja Gadabadze.
24 December 2009 [13:43]
A candidate to host the Euro 2016 European soccer event, Turkey introduced its championship logo yesterday at a meeting attended by State Minister for Sports Faruk Nafiz Özak and Turkish Soccer Federation (TFF) Chairman Mahmut Özgener.
24 December 2009 [13:10]
Armenia is dissatisfied with Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili's stance on Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
24 December 2009 [12:59]
Majlis Speaker Ali Larijani said on Wednesday that Israel has been upset by the growing cooperation between Iran and Egypt.
24 December 2009 [12:25]
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24 December 2009 [12:20]
Iran's president says the Copenhagen climate change summit proved to the international community that world powers are not prepared to make any changes to save the planet.
24 December 2009 [12:04]
A recent thaw in Turkish-Syrian relations is not a sign of a policy shift but simply normalization, the visiting Turkish prime minister said Wednesday in the Syrian capital of Damascus.
24 December 2009 [12:02]
Iranian Defense Minister Ahmad Vahidi announced on Wednesday that Iran will unveil a new generation of the “national satellite” called Tolou (dawn) in early February.
24 December 2009 [11:41]
Turkey and Syria issued a joint declaration on Wednesday after a meeting of a High Level Cooperation Council between the two countries.
24 December 2009 [11:33]
Armenia-China foreign ministries’ political consultations were held in the Armenian Foreign Ministry.
24 December 2009 [10:48]
The Turkish Health Ministry decided this week to stop releasing the number of deaths due to swine flu, a decision some experts criticized, saying it could erode transparency and confidence.
24 December 2009 [10:32]
Armenia is facing increased pressures in Karabakh peace process, Armenian National Congress representative Levon Zurabyan said.
23 December 2009 [16:42]
Armenia has confirmed the third swine flu death, Aykakan Zhamanak newspaper reported.
23 December 2009 [14:58]
Armenian soldier Gor Agabekyan, who served at a military unit in the occupied Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan, has shot dead his two fellow soldiers.
23 December 2009 [13:11]
The past year has been a hard one with numerous problems for the Armenian economy, Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan stated at his meeting with Armenian businessmen.
23 December 2009 [12:26]
23 December 2009 [10:16]
Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) co-rapporteurs have issued a statement on Armenia.
23 December 2009 [10:06]
Armenia and Turkey have wide energy contacts, so both can carry out various joint energy projects, Armenia's Energy and Natural Resources Minister Armen Movsisyan said at a press conference.
23 December 2009 [10:03]
22 December 2009 [17:34]
No governmental talks on resumption of air transport between Russia and Georgia are being held, Georgian Deputy Foreign Minister Nino Kalandadze said.
22 December 2009 [17:12]
Swine flu has killed 18-year-old pregnant girl in the Kutaisi Mother and Child Center on Dec.22, Georgia's National Center for Disease Control said.
22 December 2009 [16:49]
22 December 2009 [16:32]
A gas explosion at the Maltepe Technical and Vocational High School for girls in Istanbul injured four people Tuesday.
22 December 2009 [10:12]
"Armenia-Turkey rapprochement protocols contain provisions, disadvantageous to Armenia."
22 December 2009 [09:45]
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21 December 2009 [17:43]
Armenian control service said the annual list of construction materials provided by the Ministry of Urban Development contains wrong figures.
21 December 2009 [12:33]
Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu has called on the European Union to allow visa-free travel for Turks despite a lack of progress on key policy issues in the candidate's membership talks.
21 December 2009 [12:14]
Armenia's Education and Science Minister Armen Ashotyan signed a decree on closing down kindergartens and schools till Dec. 28.
21 December 2009 [11:42]
21 December 2009 [10:34]
Georgian opposition parties denounced actions by authorities on dismantling the memorial Martial Glory in Kutaisi and blasting its main part, which resulted in the death of two people.
21 December 2009 [10:23]
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19 December 2009 [22:30]
Armenia and Kazakhstan develop bilateral cooperation in a quite high speed, Armenia’s Serzh Sargsyan told “Kazakinfo” agency.
19 December 2009 [11:25]
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19 December 2009 [10:08]
On Dec. 18, the Parliament approved George Chkheidze the ambassador of Georgia to Belarus.
19 December 2009 [09:54]
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18 December 2009 [14:24]
The PACE Monitoring Committee adjourned discussion over the Armenian issue on Dec. 17, Armenian MP Naira Zohrabyan said.
18 December 2009 [13:49]
18 December 2009 [13:16]
Migration agency at the Armenian Ministry of Territorial Administration has been formed into the Migration Service.
18 December 2009 [11:47]
Journalist and filmmaker Can Dündar faces a possible seven-and-a-half-year prison sentence over his biopic “Mustafa,” which depicts the life of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of the Turkish Republic.
18 December 2009 [11:34]
Turkey's Deputy Prime Minister Bülent Arınç has expressed willingness to see the deputies of the now-defunct pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP) in a new political formation.
18 December 2009 [10:53]
Yerevan hosted the 4th session of Armenian-Russian Intergovernmental Committee on Military-technical Cooperation on Dec. 14-17.
18 December 2009 [09:45]
Turkish media representatives say lack of progress in resolution of Karabakh conflict complicates Armenian-Turkish protocols ratification.
17 December 2009 [18:53]
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17 December 2009 [14:38]
Eurasia Cooperation Fund and Center for Global Political Tendencies organized a meeting of Turkish and Armenian journalists in Yerevan on Dec. 17.
17 December 2009 [12:35]
The tiny Pacific island of Nauru on Wednesday recognised the Russian-backed rebel region of South Ossetia as independent, separatist rebels said, a day after Nauru recognised Georgia's other breakaway region, Abkhazia.
17 December 2009 [12:24]
Turkey may take Israel to an international arbitration court over the Heron unmanned aircraft it purchased from Israel, which Turkey says are not up to scratch, according to a source from the Defense Ministry.
17 December 2009 [11:44]
17 December 2009 [11:21]
Japan and Georgia signed an agreement for the "exchange of notes" at the Georgian Foreign Affairs Ministry.
17 December 2009 [10:56]
Foreign Trade Minister Zafer Çağlayan has said that the Dutch insurance giant Eureko is poised to transfer its operations, worth billions of euros, from less profitable countries to Turkey some time in 2010.
17 December 2009 [10:50]
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16 December 2009 [14:53]
Azerbaijan launches regular bus trips to liberated lands
Armenia arrests six servicemen returned by Azerbaijan
Baku: Azerbaijan to avert all threats against independence
Azerbaijani FM off to Austria for working visit
Azerbaijan, Bulgaria eye co-op in military education
Azerbaijani, Russian presidents hold phone conversation
Azerbaijan, Montenegro eye strategic partnership ties [UPDATE]