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News | 28.12.07 | 16:00

2007 Review: Foreign policy and the pursuit of Nagorno-Karabakh settlement

By Aris Ghazinyan
ArmeniaNow reporter
In the sphere of foreign policy affairs and prospects for the settlement of the Karabakh problem, 2007 was a chronicle of alternating events, some of which had not been forecast at all. In particular, the new year began on January 19 when editor-in-chief of the Istanbul-based Turkish-Armenian-language newspaper “Agos” Hrant Dink was shot dead in the center of Istanbul by a Turkish nationalist. This unforeseen event immediately overshadowed the expected start of the “foreign policy” year, i.e. the winter session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) that had on its agenda Armenia’s fulfillment of its commitments to the Council of Europe.

A corresponding PACE resolution was adopted at the plenary session on January 23. The document stated progress achieved by Armenia in fulfilling its obligations. Armenian Parliament Speaker Tigran Torosyan evaluated that document as an “unprecedented positive resolution ever passed by the PACE on Armenia’s fulfillment of its obligations to the Council of Europe.”

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