The delegation that stopped in Armenia on February 19 on its way to Afghanistan included Reps. Dreier, Marchant, Moran, Smith and Wilson.
Fiscal Year 2012 budget request published by the Obama Administration on February 14 would allocate a total of about $36 million in economic and security aid to Armenia, pending congressional review.
In February 2 meeting with Georgian leader, California Democrats Reps. Howard Berman and Adam Schiff discussed the need for more U.S. economic assistance to Armenian-populated Samtskhe-Javakheti province.
U.S. Representatives Frank Wolf (R-VA) and Judy Chu (D-CA) marked the anniversary of the Sumgait and Baku pogroms by speaking out in the U.S. Congress in condemnation of Azerbaijan's aggression and ongoing threats against Nagorno Karabakh, reported the Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA).
Published: Monday January 23, 2012
Senators voted on January 23 to approve legislation that criminalizes denial of genocides that are officially recognized by France, including the Armenian Genocide; President Nicolas Sarkozy was expected to sign the measure into law pending a review by the Constitutional Council.
Published: Monday January 23, 2012
An ongoing dialogue between the Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA) and the Georgian government - both in Tbilisi and via Georgia's Ambassador in Washington, DC - is exploring ways to expand the Georgian-Armenian partnership to include broader direct Georgian and Armenian investments and also increased U.S. assistance to promote job-creation in the Armenian-populated Samtskhe-Javakheti (Javakheti) region of Georgia.
Published: Thursday January 19, 2012
Five years since the Turkish Armenian journalist's murder was marked by public solidarity and little progress in the official investigation of the assassination plot.
Published: Friday January 13, 2012
Kurdish American, Hellenic American, and Armenian American leaders joined together today in calling upon key Congressional leaders to demand that the Obama Administration investigate whether Turkey violated U.S. arms export laws by using American-supplied weaponry in a December 28, 2011, airstrike that killed 35 Kurdish boys and young men along the Turkey-Iraq border.
Published: Wednesday January 11, 2012
Vartanian, who passed away January 10, is credited with saving the leaders of the Soviet Union, UK and U.S. during their 1943 summit and, years later, convincing Levon Ter-Petrossian not to disband Armenia’s intelligence service.
Published: Friday December 30, 2011
In an interview with The Armenian Reporter, Archbishop Vicken Aykazian comments on Turkey's recent rhetoric on Dersim massacres, return of minority foundations' properties and the recent re-consecration of the Diyarbakir cathedral.
French National Assembly adopts Genocide denial legislation
Appeals court rehears Armenian Genocide insurance case
House of Representatives calls for return of churches confiscated by Turkey
Congressmen urge State Dept. to support Armenia
Russian elections: ethnic Armenian representation reduced in Duma