Whatever happens in the countries of Eastern Europe and the Southern Caucasus affects the European Union. Successive EU enlargements have brought these countries closer to the EU and their security, stability, and prosperity increasingly impact the EU’s.

The Eastern Partnership (EaP) is the first comprehensive initiative introduced into the system of the European Union’s relations with Eastern European countries including Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine. The Eastern Partnership is designed to help the countries of Eastern Europe with their integration into the European Union.

Since October 2010, International Center for Human Development (ICHD) has been involved in Support to Armenian Turkish Rapprochement (SATR). One goal of this project is the “development of new business partnerships and regional professional network.”[1] The consortium of Armenian and Turkish partners implementing the program has fulfilled this aim by initiating meetings, conferences, studies and Business to Business (B to B) panels, linking professionals from various economic sectors. This study pays special attention to the tourism industry, which represents a prospective field for Armenian-Turkish cooperation.

For many months already  the situation around Syria is among the headlines of all mass media around the  world. There is hardly a single news agency in the world that does not project  news about the violence in Syria. Indeed, the intensity of hostilities in Syria  has been growing steadily and lately reached such a point that even eclipsed  the international tensions around the Iranian nuclear program. In fact, the  tension around the Iranian nuclear program is steadily decreasing throughout  the last several months. Of course, it is not to say that it is forgotten or  ignored completely, but it definitely does not attract so much attention as it  did months ago. 

Education and  books have always been essential in every Armenian’s life. According to witnesses,  wherever possive, the survivors of Armenian Genocide would take with them  books, rather than other possessions. Thus they rescued hundreds of manuscripts  and with this, the Armenian script. It is not an accident that Arabs dubbed  Armenia a “land of books”, because when theyconquered Armenia, they saw  thousands of books, and witnessed the love of people towards these books.