Serbian Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremić met Tuesday in Yerevan his Armenian counterpart Edward Nalbandian. They discussed the further steps concerning the advancement in bilateral cooperation, as well as the issues of Kosovo and Nagorno Karabakh, Azerbaijan’s breakaway region populated mostly by Armenians.
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SRS submits “draft Armenian genocide resolution”
The opposition SRS party submitted “a draft resolution to parliament condemning the genocide committed by Ottoman Turkey against Armenians from 1915 to 1923″. This is according to SRS official Zoran Krasić, who spoke in Belgrade on Thursday.
Turkish anger at U.S. Armenian genocide vote
Turkey has reacted angrily to a U.S. congressional panel’s resolution describing as genocide the killings of Armenians in World War I. PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan said his country had been accused of a crime it did not commit, adding the resolution would harm Turkish-US relations.
Armenian opposition journalist sentenced
A court in Yerevan, Armenia, has sentenced a leading opposition journalist to seven years in jail. Newspaper editor Nikol Pashinian was sentenced on charges of organizing the mass unrest that followed the 2008 presidential election, RFE/RL’s Armenian Service reports.
US officials meet Armenian minister on Turkey deal
US officials on Saturday met with Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian to help smooth over disagreements over statements to be read at the historic signing of a deal with Turkey to end a century of hostility. After leaving for the ceremony, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton



