Archivo etiqueta «Armenia»
By Timothy Garton Ash, a contributing editor to Opinion, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and professor of European studies at Oxford University. His most recent book is Facts are Subversive: Political Writing from a Decade Without a Name (LOS ANGELES TIMES, 19/01/12):
On Monday, the French Senate is scheduled to debate and possibly vote on a bill that would criminalize denial of the Armenian genocide of 1915, along with any other events recognized as genocide in French law. The bill has passed the lower house of Parliament. The Senate should reject it, in the … Seguir leyendo
By Sabine Freizer, Europe program director of the International Crisis Group (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 24/06/11):
The United States, the European Union and Russia don’t seem to agree on much these days. But in the volatile South Caucasus, they concur that Armenia and Azerbaijan need to sign an agreement on Friday if they are serious about finding a peaceful solution to the decades-old Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
President Dmitri Medvedev of Russia has invited the Armenian and Azerbaijani leaders to the city of Kazan on Friday and expects they will finally put their signatures on a “basic principles” text they have … Seguir leyendo
By Garin Hovannisian, the author of Family of Shadows: A Century of Murder, Memory, and the Armenian American Dream (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 21/09/10):
Across an ocean and a continent, on a sliver of land tucked between two seas, a little republic enters its 20th year of independence. I know a man there, an American by birth, who quit his law firm in Los Angeles around this time 20 years ago and decided he had no further business in the United States.
It was a romantic time. One by one the 15 Soviet satellite republics were breaking from the … Seguir leyendo
By Anna Matveeva, a visiting fellow with the Crisis States Research Centre at the London School of Economics (THE GUARDIAN, 17/05/10):
Last week, 12 May, marked 16 years since Russia mediated a ceasefire agreement that ended the Armenian-Azerbaijani war over Nagorno-Karabakh and started a long period of “no war, no peace” stagnation. Presently, there is a sense that things might be changing.
The territory of Karabakh is essentially a backwater for both countries. It had certain significance for Soviet military planners because of its proximity to Turkey, but otherwise has no prize assets. It is agricultural land, now sparsely … Seguir leyendo
By Guénaël Mettraux, the author of The Law of Command Responsibility and represents defendants before international criminal tribunals (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 02/04/10):
While the U.S. House of Representatives might soon be considering a resolution that would recognize the crimes committed by Turks against Armenians in 1915 as genocide, the Serbian Parliament has just adopted a resolution that provides an apology of sorts for the killing of Bosnian Muslims from Srebrenica in July 1995 but eschews any reference to “genocide.”
Intense political pressure has been at play in both cases to prevent the adoption of the resolutions — or … Seguir leyendo
Par Jules Boyadjian, rédacteur en chef du journal Haïastan, Arménie (LE MONDE, 11/03/10):
Le 4 mars 2010, la commission des affaires étrangères de la Chambre des représentants des Etats-Unis a adopté par 23 voix contre 22 la résolution H.Res.252 portant reconnaissance du génocide arménien. Ce vote traduit incontestablement une volonté légitime des congressistes de condamner la politique négationniste conduite par Ankara et de restaurer l’une des pages les plus sombres de l’histoire de l’Humanité. Mais l’attitude du département d’Etat américain, incarnée par la secrétaire d’Etat, Hillary Clinton, dévoile la réelle signification des deux protocoles signés le 10 octobre 2009 … Seguir leyendo
By Norman Stone, Professor Emeritus of Modern History at the University of Oxford and head of the Russian-Turkish Institute at Bilkent University, Ankara (THE TIMES, 08/03/10):
The best thing said about the Armenian tragedy was a sermon delivered in the main church in Constantinople in 1894, more than 20 years before it happened. Patriarch Ashikyan had this to say: “We have lived with the Turks for a thousand years, have greatly flourished, are nowhere in this empire in a majority of the population. If the nationalists go on like this [they had started a terrorist campaign] they will ruin … Seguir leyendo
By Henri J. Barkey, a professor of international relations at Lehigh University and a visiting senior scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where Thomas de Waal is a senior associate on the Caucasus (LOS ANGELES TIMES, 05/02/10):
For a while, it looked like the start of a great reconciliation. Armenia and Turkey have lived beneath the vast shadow of the mass murder of Armenians in eastern Turkey during World War I, and to this day they maintain no diplomatic ties. But in October, the Armenian and Turkish foreign ministers met in Switzerland and signed two protocols to … Seguir leyendo
Par Ara Toranian, directeur de “Nouvelles d’Arménie Magazine” (LE MONDE, 05/09/09):
Après tout, qui se souvient du massacre des Arméniens ?”, lançait Hitler aux commandants en chef de l’armée allemande le 22 août 1939, quelques jours avant l’invasion de la Pologne. Cette question terrible pourrait être posée à Culturesfrance, l’opérateur délégué des ministères des affaires étrangères et de la culture chargé de la saison turque en France (juillet 2009-mars 2010).
En effet, on cherchera en vain à l’affiche de cet événement, qui revendique plus de 400 manifestations et débats sur la Turquie, la moindre allusion au premier génocide … Seguir leyendo
Por Fred Halliday, profesor-investigador de la Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA) en el Institut de Barcelona d´Estudis Internacionals (IBEI). Traducción: Juan Gabriel López Guix (LA VANGUARDIA, 25/11/08):
Desde sus imponentes despachos que dan a la plaza de la República de Ereván, los funcionarios del Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores de Armenia no se equivocan al sentirse satisfechos ante los últimos acontecimientos de la región del Cáucaso meridional: antaño emplazamiento de una enorme estatua de Lenin y con un monumental conjunto de edificios estatales de piedra rojiza – el más admirable legado arquitectónico de la antigua URSS-,la plaza … Seguir leyendo
By Serzh Sargsyan, prime minister of Armenia, chairman of the Republican Party and the country’s president-elect and Arthur Baghdasaryan, a former speaker of Armenia’s parliament, represented the opposition Orinats Yekir (Rule of Law) Party in the February election; he placed third (THE WASHINGTON POST, 17/03/08):
Armenia‘s reputation as a stable, democratic country in a troubled region has taken a battering recently. Although international observers gave an overall positive rating to the conduct of last month’s presidential election, opposition forces took to the streets, seeking to overturn the people’s will. Riots and armed demonstrations left more than 100 … Seguir leyendo
By Levon Ter-Petrossian, president of Armenia from 1991 to 1998 and the main opposition candidate for president this year. He is under house arrest (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 05/03/08):
In Armenia‘s presidential election last month, I stood as the main opposition candidate against incumbent Prime Minister Serzh Sarkissian. The election followed a sadly familiar script: The regime harassed the opposition’s representatives, bribed and intimidated voters, stuffed ballot boxes, and systematically miscounted votes. Indeed, the rigging of the outcome did not begin on Feb. 19. For the duration of the campaign the country’s main medium of communication, television, which … Seguir leyendo
By Simon Tisdall (THE GUARDIAN, 28/11/07):
When Ganimat Zahidov, editor of the independent Azadlyq newspaper, arrived for work one day this month in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, he was accosted on the pavement by a young woman he had never seen before who started cursing and shouting at him. Moments later “an athletically built young man popped out of nowhere and began beating me”, he said. “I defended myself as best I could.”
Within hours, Zahidov had been arrested by police, charged with “hooliganism” and sentenced to two months’ pre-trial detention. If found guilty, he faces five years in … Seguir leyendo
By Charles Krauthammer (THE WASHINGTON POST, 19/19/07):
There are three relevant questions concerning the Armenian genocide.
(a) Did it happen?
(b) Should the U.S. House of Representatives be expressing itself on this now?
(c) Was House Speaker Nancy Pelosi‘s determination to bring this to a vote, knowing that it risked provoking Turkey into withdrawing crucial assistance to American soldiers in Iraq, a conscious (columnist Thomas Sowell) or unconscious (blogger Mickey Kaus) attempt to sabotage the U.S. war effort?
The answers are:
(a) Yes, unequivocally.
(b) No, unequivocally.
(c) God only knows.
That between 1 million and 1.5 million … Seguir leyendo
By Bronwen Maddox (THE TIMES, 17/10/07):
The most extraordinary spectacle of the past week has been the apparent desire of the US Congress to pronounce as genocide the 1915 massacre of Armenians by Turks, even though there is nothing more provocative to Turkey, and no worse time at which to do it.
Why take up an historic cause with such passion? And why now, when the most precarious planks of US foreign policy rest on already fraying relations with Turkey? It is not just the Bush Administration that has asked Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic Speaker of the House of … Seguir leyendo