ArmInfo.According to the Foreign Ministry of Armenia, Edward Nalbandian, the leader of the "Ethnos" newspaper, was interviewed by the Greek newspaper "Non - compromising, the maximalist position of Baku."

ArmInfo. Turkey will never give up its centuries-old policy towards Russia, one of the  initiators and leaders of the Karabakh movement, the well-known analyst Igor Muradyan, are convinced.

ArmInfo. On December 15, the delegation headed by Vice Speaker of the National Assembly of Armenia Eduard Sharmazanov, in the composition of the deputies Samvel Farmanyan and Suren Manukyan met with the Deputy Chairman of the Seimas of Latvia, Iness Libiena-Egneret.

ArmInfo.On December 14, the delegation led by the Vice- Speaker of the National Assembly, the head of the Armenia-Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia friendship group  Eduard Sharmazanov met with Deputy Foreign Minister of Lithuania Darius Skucevicius. Samvel Farmanian and Suren Manukyan are members of the delegation.

ArmInfo. The current status quo around Artsakh and the Iran- Artsakh border comes from the interests of Tehran. Vardan Voskanyan, Head of the Department of  Oriental Studies at the Faculty of Oriental Studies of Yerevan State  University, expressed this opinion to ArmInfo.

ArmInfo. The delegation led by the Vice Speaker of the National Assembly, the head of the Armenia-Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia friendship group Eduard Sharmazanov, in which the deputies of the Parliament Samvel Farmanyan and Suren Manukyan met on December 13 with the vice speaker of the Lithuanian Parliament, the chairman of the European Affairs Committee Gediminas Kirkilas and the chairman of the Commission on Foreign Relations, Juozas Bernatonis.

ArmInfo.The maximum expectations of the co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group from the intensification of the negotiation process on the Karabakh settlement, observed in the wake of the curtain of 2017, is the return of meaningfulness to the negotiation process. A similar opinion was expressed by ArmInfo Russian analyst Sergei Markedonov.

ArmInfo.French Ambassador to Armenia Jonathan Lacote is surprised at how deeply the issue related to the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict sits in Armenian society.  "I'm only two months in Armenia, but during that time there were always deaths on the contact line of the troops, from the beginning of 2017 to this day, 57 people were killed in the conflict zone, which all indicates that this is not a frozen  conflict.

The Minister of Foreign Affairs of  Republic of Artsakh Masis Mailyan in his interview with ArmInfo tells about the priorities of the  state entity he heads, the prospects for the negotiation process to determine the future of  Artsakh people. He talks about the tools that Russia operates in the Karabakh settlement process, shares the vision of international prospects for the process of strengthening the Artsakh border  and resolving the problems of refugees.   

ArmInfo. Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian described nine reasons for the lack of progress in the negotiation process on the Nagorno-Karabakh  settlement, despite holding numerous high-level meetings.

ArmInfo. In Vienna, on the margins of the OSCE Ministerial Council, the meeting of Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian with the co-chairs of the OSCE  Minsk Group started. Tigran Balayan, spokesman for the Armenian Foreign Ministry, wrote on his Facebook page.

ArmInfo.It is not necessary to expect fundamental changes in the talks on Karabakh from the Vienna meeting of the Foreign Ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan.   Mihran Hakobyan, a deputy of the National Assembly of Armenia from  the ruling Republican Party of Armenia, expressed such opinion to  ArmInfo.

ArmInfo.The Vienna meeting of the Foreign Ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan Edward Nalbandian and Elmar Mammadyarov is likely to be crowned with the continuation of negotiations for the sake of negotiations. Such an opinion was  expressed to ArmInfo by scientist of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, political scientist Alexander Skakov.

ArmInfo. Artsakh Foreign Minister Masis Mailyan is convinced that Russia did not change its position in favor of Baku during the "four-day" April war in 2016.

ArmInfo. Today's Artsakh state borders are not beyond its historical limits. The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Artsakh Masis Mailyan stated this in an interview  with the Sharg newspaper, answering the question whether it is possible that when signing a peace agreement with Baku, Artsakh will lose most of its cities, which in its turn will not exclude the absence of common borders with Iran in future.

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ArmInfo.Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan received the newly appointed EU Special Representative for the issues of the South Caucasus and the crisis in Georgia Toivo  Klaar.

ArmInfo.No reasons to have expectations for  real deterioration of Turkey's relations with the West, in particular, with NATO, as well as Ankara's participation in  the Karabakh settlement in the foreseeable future.  This opinion was  voiced by the leading research associate of the Institute of World  Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of  Sciences Viktor Nadein-Rayevsky.

ArmInfo.Chairman of the NA Standing Committee on External Relations Armen Ashotyan during the meeting with the Deputy Head of the NATO Liaison Office in the South Caucasus, Rosaria Pulizi, stressed the importance of NATO-Armenia  cooperation, and in this context the role of parliamentary diplomacy.

ArmInfo.The agreement signed by Armenia and the EU supports the solution of the Karabakh conflict in accordance with the norms of international law, signing the  Agreement on Comprehensive and Enhanced Partnership with the EU, the  head of European diplomacy, Federica Mogherini, with the Armenian  Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian.