« OBLIGER LES CANDIDATS A CHERCHER DES SOLUTIONS AUX PROBLEMES DE L’ARMENIE ».Quinzième anniversaire de l’indépendance, conférence « Arménie-Diaspora », visite de Chirac, crise russo-géorgienne et conflit du Karabagh, l’agenda de la diplomatie arménienne du mois de septembre a été

Speech by H.E. Vartan Oskanian Minister of Foreign Affairs At the University for Peace Conference on Capacity Building for Peace and Development: Roles of Diaspora

In this conference of experts, I feel right at home. I am, by default, an expert on Diaspora. I was born in Syria, the heart of the Armenian Diaspora, came to the homeland for the first time as a Diasporan student -- and today, I am foreign minister of that homeland which has more of its nationals living in Diaspora, than at home. I appre

Introductory Address on Subtheme 3 Building a More Humane Europe By H. E. Mr. Vartan Oskanian Minister of Foreign Affairs of Armenia At the 115th Session of the Committee of Ministers Co

Mr. Chairman, I am privileged to speak on one of the four political priorities on which the heads of state and government had said they would like to see concrete progress for this ministerial session. BUILDING A MORE HUMANE EUROPE – this has been Europe’s intention all along. Assuring the well-being and dignity of human

H.E. Mr. Vartan Oskanian, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Armenia, Addresses the students of the International Affairs Dept of Yerevan State Un

Thank you for giving me this opportunity today to speak with you. There is no more current theme today, in Armenia, than constitutional reforms. I¹m pleased to be addressing this theme with this audience today, because it is you students who will be affected by the changes which these amendments propose, and it is you who ca

From the Near Abroad to the New Neighborhood…

By Rouben Shugarian, Deputy Foreign Minister of the Republic of Armenia Former Ambassador to the US The paradox of the South Caucasus/Black Sea present day regional identity is that less geography means more geo-politics. This is true not only in the context of general europeanization but also as far as the link

Speech by Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian at the Conference on the Southern Caucasus- Political Challenges and Development Perspectives

I appreciate the opportunity to speak before you on our political challenges, on resolving conflicts and perhaps most importantly, on development. When I’m at the OSCE or at the Council of Europe, I speak with my foreign minister’s hat on. Here, in this more theoretical forum, I’d like to use the opportunity to speak

Speech by His Excellency Vartan Oskanian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Armenia at the BSEC Conference

Excellencies, Distinguished Guests, Ladies and Gentlemen, I welcome you wholeheartedly to Armenia on the happy occasion of this Eighth Meeting of the BSEC Council of Foreign Ministers. As Armenia prepares to hand over the Chairmanship of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation Organization, we can all look back

STATEMENT BY VARTAN OSKANIAN MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS OF THE REPUBLIC OF ARMENIA AT THE DECENNIAL ANNIVERSARY SUMMIT OF THE BLACK SEA ECONOMIC COOPERATION

Excellencies, Mr. Secretary-General, Ladies and gentlemen, At the outset I would like to express our gratitude to President Sezer and the Turkish Government for organizing this historic reunion, exactly a decade from the day when the decision was made to establish the Organization of the Black Sea Econom

STATEMENT BY Mr. VARTAN OSKANIAN, MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS OF THE REPUBLIC OF ARMENIA AT THE 9TH MINISTERIAL MEETING OF THE OSCE

Honorable Chairman,  Minister Geoana,  Esteemed Colleagues,  Distinguished Guests, This annual gathering of the Ministerial Council in Bucharest demonstrates that the OSCE is alive and well. Through its various incarnations, the OSCE has overcome not only radical transformations in the international

S T A T E M E N T BY HIS EXCELLENCY VARTAN OSKANIAN MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS OF THE REPUBLIC OF ARMENIA

Mr. Chairman, Thank you. I would like to congratulate Lord Robertson on his appointment as NATO Secretary General. I would also like to join the others in welcoming Ireland in Euro-Atlantic Partnership Community. This partnership has truly played significant role in the past. It has, at the beginning of the 21st century, the necessar