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Armenia can present an application for membership in the European Union, the spokesperson for EU’s foreign affairs office, Peter Stano told Izvestia.
“Countries have the right to strive for a better future for their people,” Stano said. “They are free to decide how to achieve such a future. As for EU membership, each European country — its people and government — must decide whether they want to apply for EU membership.”
“Armenia can apply for EU membership. Nevertheless, the further decision on the integration of this or that country depends on the unanimous approval of the European Union countries,” the EU official explained.
The statement comes two days after the European Parliament, with 405 votes, approved a resolution that called for support of Armenia’s candidacy to the EU.
“Should Armenia be interested in applying for candidate status and continuing on its path of sustained reforms consolidating its democracy, this could set the stage for a transformative phase in EU-Armenia relations,’’ the resolution approved on Wednesday by the members of the EU’s legislative body states.
Both Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan welcomed the European Parliament resolution. Azerbaijan, on the other hand, condemned the effort.
Mirzoyan on Friday told reporters that “when Armenia has an intention to apply for EU membership, you will be the first to know about it.”
Armenia Deputy Foreign Miniter Paruyr Hovhannisyan announced on Friday that Yerevan is developing a new cooperation document with the EU, saying that the new agreement will be signed by July.
“If the Comprehensive and Enhanced Partnership Agreement between Armenia and the EU is fully implemented, we will indeed have the status of a candidate country for EU membership. In addition to this, new directions of cooperation and new programs are being developed, which emerged as a result of a fact-finding mission that took place in November of last year,” Hovhannisyan told a group of Armenian lawmakers.
“Now, alongside these two processes and the expression of our political rapprochement, a new document is being developed. Certain issues regarding it have been discussed at the Armenia-EU Partnership Council and at other working levels. We expect to receive a new draft in May, which should probably be adopted by July,” Hovhannisyan added.
YEREVAN (Azatutyun.am)—Turkey’s leaders have renewed their demands for Armenia to open an extraterritorial corridor connecting Azerbaijan to its Nakhichevan exclave.
Speaking after a trilateral meeting with his Georgian and Azerbaijani counterparts in Baku on Friday, Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said that Ankara expects “general support for the opening of the Zangezur path.” He said that is essential for “restoring peace in the South Caucasus.”
For his part, Turkish Transport and Infrastructure Minister Abdulkadir Uraloglu said in an interview publicized earlier in the day that the corridor would benefit not only Turkey and Azerbaijan but also the entire “Turkic world.”
Binali Yildirim, a former Turkish prime minister heading the Council of Elders of the Organization of Turkic States, made the same point when he spoke to journalists in Baku on Thursday.
“May the 21st century be a Turkic century,” Yildirim said. “The Zangezur corridor must also be opened.”
Unlike “mainland” Azerbaijan, Nakhichevan has a short land border with Turkey.
Armenia maintains that people and goods moving between Nakhichevan to the rest of Azerbaijan cannot be exempt from Armenian border controls and that the two South Caucasus states should have only conventional transport links guaranteeing their full control over all transit routes passing through their respective territories.
Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan reaffirmed this position on Friday. Visiting Turkey earlier this month, Mirzoyan indicated that the issue is one of the two main sticking points in ongoing negotiations on an Armenian-Azerbaijani peace treaty. He met with Fidan during the trip.
The corridor demanded by Baku and Ankara would pass through Syunik, the only Armenian region bordering Iran. The Islamic Republic has repeatedly warned against attempts to strip it of the common border and transport links with Armenia.
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi reportedly told a visiting Azerbaijani official last October that the “Zangezur corridor” is “resolutely opposed” by his country. Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei made this clear to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan when they met in Tehran in 2022.
Erdogan complained about Iran’s stance a year later. He insisted on the corridor in a speech delivered at a November 2023 summit of the leaders of Turkic states held in Kazakhstan.
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The National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR) will host a hybrid talk by Marc A. Mamigonian, “Armenians in Massachusetts, 1870-1924: Establishing a Community, Building Institutions,” on Wednesday, March 20, 2024, at 7:30 p.m. Eastern / 4:30 p.m. Pacific.
Members of the community are invited to attend this final event in series of NAASR programs exploring various aspects of Armenian-American identities, Exploring Hybrid Identities of Armenian-Americans in Mass., which is supported by Mass Humanities under their Expand Massachusetts Stories Initiative.
The webinar will be accessible live on Zoom (registration required) and on NAASR’s YouTube Channel.
In the under-studied area of Armenian-American history, the decades prior to the 1890s are especially murky, as a tiny number of Armenians began to form the basis for what would become a more substantial and established community (although the post-1890s decades are hardly well-documented either). Since history, Armenian-American history included, is more than just a recitation of organizations and entities, but is also made up of the stories of individuals, this presentation will combine family history with the early history of the Armenian-American community in New England and some of its developing institutions as a means to explore the early period of Armenian-American history and identity building in Massachusetts.
Marc A. Mamigonian is the Director of Academic Affairs of the National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR), based in Belmont, MA, where he has worked since 1998. He is the co-author of the volume Annotations to James Joyce’s Ulysses (Oxford University Press, 2022; with John N. Turner and Sam Slote) and is the editor of the volume The Armenians of New England (2004) and is co-editor with Mary Jane Rein and Thomas Kuehne of Documenting the Armenian Genocide: Essays in Honor of Taner Akçam (2024).
For more information contact NAASR at hq@naasr.org.
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