Editorial

Editorial | 23.04.10 | 10:08

Well Said: Sargsyan address timely, if overdue

By John Hughes

An address to his nation by Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan Thursday night should also be seen as a message to US President Barack Obama that says: “We honored our word. Now honor yours.”

By publicly stating what has long been known – that the protocol process is a failure – Sargsyan expressed sentiments that should be welcomed throughout the worldwide Armenian community, regardless of political persuasion, and in spite of the ugly history that afforded Sargsyan the national stage.

A word spoken: Sargsyan tells nation Turkey accords ratification on hold, but Armenia “retains her signature”

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Editorial | 20.03.10 | 14:27

Prime Message in Favor of Recognition: Erdogan’s outcry underscores the pain of truth

By John Hughes

While Turkey attempts to gag the U.S. Congress from passing the “Armenian Genocide Resolution”, the republic might do better to muzzle its prime minister, who is making a remarkable case for why Turkey ought to be held accountable for its blood-soaked past.

This week Recep Tayyip Erdoğan threatened to deport some 100,000 Armenians from Turkey, who he says are living there illegally. The threat was leveled after Sweden passed a resolution recognizing the Genocide, less than three weeks after the US Congress House Foreign Affairs Committee narrowly (23-22) approved HR252, a similar resolution that now faces the unlikely chance of making it to a vote of the full assembly.

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Editorial | 11.03.10 | 10:38

HR252 Fallout: US acquiescence to Turkish tantrum encourages more of same

By John Hughes

In the predictable fallout over the House Foreign Affairs Committee passage of HR252, the “Armenian Genocide Resolution”, last week, contrary rhetoric has retorted itself into an irritant popularly expressed but shallow in concept.

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Editorial | 05.03.10 | 14:50

About Blame and Blindness: HR252 has no relevance to “protocols”

By John Hughes

Yerevan, Armenia ain’t Washington, D.C., any more than this newsroom is a Congressional Committee hall.

But in the world we live in here, most accept what nobody, there, is saying. This:

“Normalization” talks between Armenia and Turkey, failed quite a while before a late-afternoon vote in D.C. had congresspersons talking about that possibility.

Not since last October, when State Department led “protocols” offered promises that soon became impossible to fulfill, has there been reasonable belief that Armenia and Turkey were skipping hand in hand on a yellow brick road to lollipops and Technicolor dreams.

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Editorial | 25.02.10 | 11:01

Double Edged Word: U.S. again faces choice between conscience and convenience with “Armenian Genocide” resolution

By John Hughes

The United States government is again being asked to endorse a phrase that might heal an ally: “Armenian Genocide”.

It isn’t likely to happen. Surely not while Armenia and Turkey are at least making overtures of neighborliness.

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Editorial | 22.02.10 | 10:29

Eurocheaters?: Passions for song contest reveal “post-election” syndrome

By Suren Musayelyan

The passions over Eurovision, an annual song contest held by public broadcasters in Europe, were flying high throughout last week as the discussion of the controversial outcome of a national selection stage appeared to eclipse even the debate on such vital issues for the country as the Armenian-Turkish rapprochement.

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Editorial | 19.01.10 | 19:29

Crowning Conviction: Armenian court legitimizes Pashinyan’s cause

By convicting Nikol Pashinyan of a major crime against the state, the Court of Armenia has helped turn a provocateur into a martyr, whose stature has grown inordinately greater than his significance.

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Analysis: Where is the Hillary of Zurich?

By Aris Ghazinyan

United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's visit to Yerevan has, no doubt, been an extraordinary event, if only for the rarity of such occasions. It has been 18 years since any US official of her rank came here.

Clinton’s visit was heralded by two strong statements: A G8 statement of the presidents of the USA, France and Russia said Armenia and Azerbaijan have to “take the next step and complete the work” on the main principles of the settlement of the protracted Karabakh conflict in order to begin drafting a peace agreement. The other statement came immediately after Clinton's visit, this time by OSCE Minsk group co-chairs and with a similar content.

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Well Said: Sargsyan address timely, if overdue

What most people fail to recognize is that the dialog with Turkey, failed or otherwise, makes them to speak out. As soon they start to talk they say stupidities of Universal scale as Edrogan does, or have to admit the guilt as intellectuals do. When there is no dialog, Armenian accusations are often viewed by outside world as complains of losers. Now, thanks to the protocol process, there was a...

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