onjig Posted May 17, 2018 Report Share Posted May 17, 2018 Tensions Rise Over Trees, and the ‘New Armenia’ is Officially Donald Trump-Approved (Graphic: The Armenian Weekly)On May 16, U.S. President Donald Trump sent congratulations to Armenia’s newly elected prime minister, Nikol Pashinyan, and said his administration will cooperate with the new Armenian government on “the many areas of mutual interest.” The State Department sent similar remarks hours after the President’s statement. Pashinian’s chief of staff, Eduard Aghajanian, welcomed the congratulatory letter from Trump and told RFE/RL’s Armenian service that a deepening of U.S.-Armenian ties is “inevitable.” “I am confident that our relations with all countries and the U.S. in particular have a very serious potential for development,” he said. Washington had closely monitored the recent dramatic developments in Armenia that led to the resignation of Prime Minister Serge Sarkisian and his replacement by Pashinyan.The Armenian National Committee (ANCA) took the opportunity to highlight the clear difference between Trump’s message to Pashninyan and an earlier note to Azerbaijani President Aliyev—most notably that Trump’s Armenia letter opens with congratulations, while the Azerbaijan letter (conspicuously) does not congratulate Aliyev. “The meaningful contrast between the White House’s congratulatory letter to Armenia’s Prime Minister Pashinyan and its pro forma note to President Aliyev—which did not even mention Azerbaijan’s deeply undemocratic election—may very well represent progress toward the ANCA’s long-term aim of ending the flawed policy of false parity that has, for far too long, characterized America’s approach to Armenia and Artsakh, on the one hand, and Azerbaijan on the other—on issues of peace, democracy, and development,” said ANCA Executive Director Aram Hamparian in a statement.https://armenianweekly.com/2018/05/17/tensions-rise-over-trees-and-trump/ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onjig Posted May 17, 2018 Author Report Share Posted May 17, 2018 Maybe there's something I'm missing ~ what is the tension over trees ``` Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onjig Posted May 20, 2018 Author Report Share Posted May 20, 2018 Oh, I see it ~ coming down ~ like confetti ``` Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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