<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><channel><title>Negotiations on Armenian News Network - Groong</title><link>https://ann.org/tags/negotiations/</link><description>Recent content in Negotiations on Armenian News Network - Groong</description><generator>Hugo -- 0.128.0</generator><language>en-us</language><lastBuildDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2020 00:00:00 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://ann.org/tags/negotiations/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>The Armenian-Turkish War</title><link>https://ann.org/ro/ro-20201010.html</link><pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2020 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://ann.org/ro/ro-20201010.html</guid><description>Summary
While the American mainstream media was busy discussing the fly on Mike Pence&amp;rsquo;s head during Vice Presidential Debate, the Armenian-Turkish conflict entered the second week of violence across the entire line of contact (LoC) between the Republic of Artsakh and Azerbaijan, and many regional and extra-regional powers took a neutral to stand and watch attentively from the sidelines. An attempt by Azerbaijani-Turkish and ISIS-linked formations to encircle Artsakh by taking over its strategic communication highways with the Republic of Armenia while carrying out devastating blows against Artsakh&amp;rsquo;s Defense Army in a new and enhanced blitzkrieg strategy has failed dramatically.</description></item><item><title>Politics of Transition in Armenia and Prospects of a Peace Deal with Azerbaijan</title><link>https://ann.org/ro/ro-lzourabian-20000429.html</link><pubDate>Sat, 29 Apr 2000 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://ann.org/ro/ro-lzourabian-20000429.html</guid><description>Yerevan, Armenia
On October 27th, 1999 five gunmen broke into the chamber of the National Assembly of Armenia during the weekly session of parliamentary inquiries addressed to the Government and opened fire. Within seconds they had killed the Prime Minister of Armenia as well as the Chairman of the Parliament, his two deputies and 4 other members of the Parliament and the Government, whose nearly total membership was present at the session.</description></item><item><title>"Diplomatic Rotation" Or Elimination?</title><link>https://ann.org/ro/ro-20000421.html</link><pubDate>Fri, 21 Apr 2000 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://ann.org/ro/ro-20000421.html</guid><description>President Kocharian dismisses senior ambassador in continuing power consolidation.
On Wednesday, April 20, 2000, President Robert Kocharian dismissed Armen Sarkissian, Armenia&amp;rsquo;s Ambassador to the United Kingdom and the country&amp;rsquo;s most senior diplomat in Europe.
President Kocharian did not provide any explanation for Ambassador Sarkissian&amp;rsquo;s dismissal. Foreign Ministry sources only said that his sacking was in line with recent efforts to reduce ambassadorial tenures to a &amp;ldquo;maximum of four years&amp;rdquo;, but Sarkissian&amp;rsquo;s sacking reveals a deeper political malaise in Armenia.</description></item><item><title>Armenia's Foreign Relations</title><link>https://ann.org/ro/ro-19971006.html</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 1997 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://ann.org/ro/ro-19971006.html</guid><description>EVENT: Senior presidential adviser Jirair (Gerard) Libaridian resigned.
SIGNIFICANCE: Libaridian&amp;rsquo;s departure comes at a time when Armenia has been mounting a relatively successful effort to build its international ties.
ANALYSIS: On September 15, Jirair Libaridian announced that President Levon Ter-Petrosian had accepted his resignation as a senior foreign policy advisor, on purely personal grounds. Libaridian has been a key architect of Armenian foreign policy since independence, playing a central role in negotiations over Nagorno Karabakh and in warming relations with Turkey.</description></item><item><title>Conflict Mythology and Azerbaijan</title><link>https://ann.org/ro/ro-19970917.html</link><pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 1997 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://ann.org/ro/ro-19970917.html</guid><description>Almost every day now media outlets report on the continuous multinational effort to forge out a final peace settlement in the nine year-old conflict between the government of Azerbaijan and the people of the de- facto independent Nagorno Karabakh Republic-Artsakh. Their reports generally contain a brief on a recent round of talks, where parties would once again reiterate their incompatible positions, with mediators privately promising a diplomatic breakthrough soon.
Over the years such reports have become enveloped in the usual repetition of grim statistics: tallies numbering the dead and refugees, and areas occupied.</description></item></channel></rss>