Wall Street Journal - January 28, 2010

Turkey-Armenia Pact Hits Snags
 
Azeri president says he's confident Ankara won't sign pact until occupied territory is returned to Azerbaijan

By MARC CHAMPION, MARCUS WALKER and STEPHEN FIDLER

A deal between Turkey and Armenia to open their border and establish diplomatic relations after generations of dispute over genocide allegations and territory is under growing threat of collapse.

Armenia is pushing for rapid ratification of the deal, signed in October, while Turkey has a longer time frame. On Wednesday, Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev added to concerns for the deal when he said he was confident Turkey wouldn't ratify the agreement until Armenia has returned Azeri territory that it occupies, including the mainly ethnic Armenian region of Nagorno Karabakh.

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Armenian opposition journalist jailed over unrest

Thursday, January 21, 2010

YEREVAN - Agence France-Presse

An Armenian court sentenced an opposition journalist to seven years in prison for his involvement in mass post-election protests that sparked deadly unrest, a court spokeswoman said.

Nikol Pashinian, a prominent opposition figure and editor of the Haykakan Zhamanak newspaper, was convicted on charges of "organizing mass unrest", Yerevan district court spokeswoman Alina Engoian told AFP. Pashinian was a key organiser of opposition protests following President Serzh Sarkisian's victory in a February 2008 election.

 

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