YEREVAN Summit season is upon us.

Yerevan Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan s recent invitation to Turkish President Abdullah Gul to visit Yerevan to watch a football match together was historic.

Armenian Genocide Centenary march in Yerevan, April 24.

Armenian Genocide Centenary march in Yerevan, April 24.

In Yerevan, the chief executive is the mayor, appointed by the president.

A Fistful of Euros comments on this weekend's World Cup qualifying match between Armenia and Turkey in Yerevan.

In 1967, a memorial to the victims of the Armenian Genocide was built at the Tsitsernakaberd hill above the Hrazdan gorge in Yerevan.

In Yerevan, hundreds of thousands of Armenians and foreigners took part in a massive march from Republic Square to Tsitsernakaberd, the Armenian Genocide Memorial.

Ms. Aghjanian (Armenia) stated that as Yerevan had been established in 782 BC, its territory could not have been gifted to Armenia by Azerbaijan.

In 1965, the 50th anniversary of the genocide, a 24 hour mass protest was initiated in Yerevan demanding recognition of the Armenian Genocide by Soviet authorities.

Beyond the emotional impact of President Gul s visit to Yerevan, real improvement in Turkish Armenian relations requires opening the two countries closed border the last in Europe.

Officers from the Police of RA have participated in courses organized in Yerevan, as well as in the United States, Egypt, Russian Federation and Republic of Belarus.

The INSARAG secretariat, supported by the Governments of Colombia, the Philippines and Armenia, organized earthquake response exercises in the earthquake prone cities of Bogotá (October 2003), Manila (January 2004) and Yerevan (June 2005).

YEREVAN Will Turkey s current turmoil between Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and the country s powerful army complicate and delay the country s boldest initiatives in years the moves to address decades old tensions with both Armenians and Kurds?

A few seminars on terrorism and its financing were held in Yerevan in 2003 2004, and were attended by judges, prosecutors, persons in charge from the Police and National Security Service, as well as officials from competent state bodies.

The promotion of the dialogue among civilizations was further reinforced through the activities of United Nations information centres, including a poster competition (United Nations Office in Yerevan) and media round tables (United Nations Offices in Minsk and in Almaty).

YEREVAN Summit season is upon us. Following the G 20 meetings in Seoul and the NATO summit in Portugal, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe will hold its first summit in 10 years in Astana, Kazakhstan s spanking new capital city.

Beyond the emotional impact of President Gul s visit to Yerevan, real improvement in Turkish Armenian relations requires opening the two countries closed border the last in Europe. Or, for a start, the existing railroad link between the two countries could be made operational.

With exception of Yerevan Zvartnots airport, where a two rout system is used and declaration can be done both verbally and in written form, in all other cases physical persons crossing the Republic of Armenia customs boarders shall present physical person's customs declaration in written form.

By the Decision of the Committee of Secretaries of the Security Councils (CSCS) of the member states of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, a Working Group on the issues of fight against terrorism and other manifestations of extremism was set up during the session held on November 30, 2004 in Yerevan.

In 1918 Armenia had proclaimed its independence and asked the Government of Azerbaijan to yield land to enable it to establish its own State in solidarity, the Government of Azerbaijan had ceded territory on the understanding that in the future the two neighbouring countries would be linked and that Yerevan would become the capital of the current Armenian State.