<?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>Peace on Armenian News Network - Groong</title><link>https://ann.org/tags/peace/</link><description>Recent content in Peace on Armenian News Network - Groong</description><generator>Hugo -- 0.128.0</generator><language>en-us</language><lastBuildDate>Thu, 23 Jun 2011 00:00:00 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://ann.org/tags/peace/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>Syria's Broken Spring: A Damascus Report</title><link>https://ann.org/ro/ro-20110623.html</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 Jun 2011 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://ann.org/ro/ro-20110623.html</guid><description>A seething revolt across much of Syria is being met with ferocious repression by the Ba&amp;rsquo;athist government&amp;rsquo;s security forces. But so far, the two cities where close to half of Syria&amp;rsquo;s population lives - Damascus and Aleppo - are relatively calm. In this evolving situation, what are the prospects for Syria&amp;rsquo;s regime and people? Vicken Cheterian reports and reflects.
A visit to Damascus, at a time when so much of the rest of Syria is burning, offers a striking contrast to the images of the country presented in international broadcasting media.</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>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>