<?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>Strategic Partnership on Armenian News Network - Groong</title><link>https://ann.org/tags/strategic-partnership/</link><description>Recent content in Strategic Partnership 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/strategic-partnership/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>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></channel></rss>