Face à la guerre du Karabagh (du 27 septembre au 9 novembre 2020), initiée par l’Azerbaïdjan contre la population arménienne, on n’a pas beaucoup entendu la voix de démocrates turcs, pour la plupart emprisonnés, censurés ou exilés. Cengiz Aktar, ancien haut fonctionnaire aux Nations-Unies, professeur invité à l’Université d’Athènes, a publié, au moment du conflit, « Le malaise turc » un pamphlet d’une centaine de pages, contre le régime d’Erdoğan, sultan républicain qui se rêve en calife. Il livre aujourd’hui une analyse sans concession de l’état actuel de son pays.

On August 11, 2020, Memorandum of understanding was signed between Armenian “China-Eurasia” Council for Political and Strategic research and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization’s Chinese Committee on Good Neighbourliness, Friendship and Cooperation (SCO GNFCC). According to the Memorandum of understanding, Parties agreed to cooperate with each other, to contribute to the development of Sino-Armenian relations, to promote dialogue between 2 ancient civilizations, to start and bust cooperation in academic, technological, informational, educational, cultural and other fields.

The head of  the “China-Eurasia” Council for Political and Strategic Research, Dr. Mher Sahakyan, was elected a member of the Advisory Board of the International Institute for Peace - IIP. Established in 1956 in Vienna, Austria this institution is making great contribution for the World peace and international security.

A 48-page Central Intelligence Agency Top Secret Report, prepared in August 1988 and made public in 2012 with some deletions, is titled “Unrest in the Caucasus and the Challenge of Nationalism.” Despite the passage of time, the Report includes an interesting analysis of the Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) conflict from the perspective of U.S. intelligence services.

While the lawsuit filed by the Catholicosate of Cilicia based in Antelias, Lebanon, for the recovery of its former headquarters in Sis, Turkey, has received wide publicity, another just as important lawsuit against Turkey, is hardly known by the Armenian and international community.

The United Nations’ General Assembly held its annual session Sept. 24-30, 2019 in New York City. The participants were heads of states and high-ranking officials of UN member countries, including Armenia’s Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Azerbaijan’s Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov. Surprisingly, Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev was absent -- a big mistake on his part!

"They’re defining a weapon that is unsupervised or independent from human direction, unsupervised in its battlefield operations, and self-targeting [i.e. chooses its own targets],” Work said. “The weapon doesn’t exist! It might not even be technically feasible, and if it is technically feasible, there’s absolutely no evidence that a western army, certainly the United States, would employ such a weapon.”
“In the meantime,” Work went on angrily, “they’re willing to say, ‘I’m willing to sacrifice the lives of American servicemen and women, I’m willing to take more civilian casualties, and I’m willing to take more collateral damage, on the off chance that sometime in the future this weapon will exist.

July 12, 2019, Yerevan, Armenia- “China-Eurasia” Council for Political and Strategic Research, Russian-Armenian University (RAU)  and “Europe Goes Silk Road” jointly organized academic Seminar “Europe Goes Silk Road through Armenia”. Academic seminar was hosted by the RAU.  

The 2018 “Velvet Revolution” in Armenia raised hopes for a long-lasting peace in the ongoing Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, but sticking points remain. The “Velvet Revolution” of the April – May 2018 marked the end of the approximately thirty year-long rule of the so called “military generation” in Armenia – those who came into power in Armenia during or as a result of participation in the bloody Nagorno-Karabakh conflict of 1991-1994 in the South Caucasus.

The US government recently created a new and unnecessary controversy, this time with the Republic of Armenia. It all started when the Armenian government decided to send a non-combat humanitarian squad of 83 doctors, sappers, and other servicemen to Syria to provide assistance to the important, but dwindling Armenian community in Aleppo. Armenia had previously sent four airlifts of humanitarian assistance to the Syrian people.

On the sidelines of recent NATO summit, the leader of Armenian “Velvet revolution”, current Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan had separate talks with the European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker and the president of the European Council Donald Tusk during which the leaders exchanged views on different issues over the further deepening of the Armenia-EU ties.

Dr. Mher Sahakyan, head of the "China-Eurasia" Political and Strategic Research Foundation, member of the British Association for Chinese Studies, has published the new book on China’s One Belt, One Road Initiative and Armenia. The main aim of this study is to introduce a strategic roadmap through which Armenia can be involved in the Chinese "One Belt, One Road" initiative and strengthen its political, military-technical, financial and economic cooperation with China.

Russia’s and the US’s pivots towards Asia, China’s pivot towards Eurasian continent with its One Belt, One Road initiative, harmonization perspectives of Eurasian Economic Union and One Belt, One Road are changing modern Eurasian economic and political order.
Along with the growing exchanges between China and Eurasia,China’s influence in Contemporary Eurasian Mainland is increasing.
The main aim of this Conference, which will held for the first time in Yerevan is to provide a platform for researchers who research China-Eurasia relations.

Mher Sahakyan, head of the “China-Eurasia” Council for Political and Strategic Research, foundation, Armenia, presented a paper on “The One Belt, One Road” and Prospects for Sino-Armenian cooperation in this Initiative at the “4-th China and the Middle East” conference during 20-22 June 2018 held at the Nevsehir Haci Bektas Veli University, Turkey. This conference was organized in partnership with the Shanghai University, Nevsehir Haci Bektas Veli University and Cappadocia University.

Nowadays, one of the main features of global political developments are non-violent or color revolutions. These revolutions are brought about by wide-spread corruption, poverty, unemployment and a deep gap between masses and the ruling elite with the latter being the biggest political risk for the ruling party.

The Armenian Church in Dhaka Bangladesh is embarking on an exciting, ambitious and unique community and history project.
The church has existed in Dhaka for over 200 years and its community played an important mercantile role in the history of this wonderful country of Bangladesh.

If you’re looking for some good news from a faraway land, here’s a tale of Armenia’s “velvet revolution,” which just deposed a corrupt, authoritarian government and installed a team of eager young reformers to govern a tiny nation perilously bordering Russia.

Vienna, Austria—On May 28-29, 2018, the “International Peace Studies Conference Vienna” was held at the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna and International Institute for Peace.

The “father” of political realism Hans J. Morgenthau specifies two types of external interests – complementary and conflicting .
At the same time American political scientist Michael G. Roskin is adding “identical” interest to the H.Morgenthau`s classification, clarifying, that “two countries, even allies, seldom have identical national interests” .

This article focuses on the analysis of geopolitical and geostrategic essence of the following integration projects: Eastern Partnership Program (EaP) of the European Union, Eurasian Economic Union (EEU), and Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). I argue that as the six Eastern Partnership countries are geographically and geopolitically situated on the cross-roads of these projects, they should become the “bridge” of cooperation and dialogue among them.