| January |
N.K.R. leaders reject Russian
President Boris Yeltsins request for Karabagh to maintain the status
of an autonomous republic within Azerbaijan.
Finance Minister Levon Barkhudarian
announces that Armenia's gross domestic product (G.D.P.) rose 5.4%
in 1995. Armenia is the only C.I.S. country to report positive economic
growth in 1996.
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| February 6 |
The National Assembly elects
five members of the Constitutional Court, established by the new Constitution.
Gagik Harutunian resigns as vice president to become the first president
of the Constitutional Court. |
| March 6 |
A new trial opens charging
31 members of the A.R.F. with conspiracy to foster a coup d'etat against
the government of Armenia, planning terrorist acts against Armenias
president and defense minister, and illegal possession of arms and
ammunition. |
| March |
Joseph Presel, U.S. special
envoy on the Karabagh conflict, proposes a three-part peace plan that
would return the occupied territories to Azerbaijan and move N.K.R.s
armed forces back to the Nagorno Karabagh borders, make the Lachin
Corridor a permanent link between Nagorno Karabagh and Armenia, and
give Armenian refugees the right to return to their homes in Azerbaijan.
The plan is considered unacceptable by Azerbaijan.
The first international bank in Armenia,
British Midland Bank, opens its Yerevan Branch.
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| April 21 |
President Ter-Petrossian
and Azerbaijani President Heidar Aliyev issue a joint communique following
a summit meeting in Luxembourg where both presidents signed an Agreement
on Partnership and Cooperation with the European Union. |
| May 12 |
The second anniversary
of the cease-fire is marked by N.K.R. President Kocharian's request
for the de jure recognition of N.K.R. by the international community. |
| June 3 |
The presidents of Armenia,
Azerbaijan, Georgia and Russia meet in Kislovodosk where they sign
a declaration, On Inter-Ethnic Accord, Peace and Economic and Cultural
Cooperation. |
| September 2 |
A special session of the
Nagorno Karabagh parliament passes resolution for new presidential
elections to be held on November 24, 1996. |
| September 3 |
Armenian deputy Foreign
Minister Vartan Oskanian states that the peace plan between Russia
and Chechnya is a viable precedent and fair model for settling the
Nagorno Karabagh conflict. |
| September 25 |
Protestors stormed the
Armenian parliament building following the announcement that President
Levon Ter-Petrossian had been reelected with 52.3 percent of the vote.
Parliament Speaker Babken Ararktsian and deputy speaker Ara Sahakian
were severely beaten and taken hostage. Two were killed and over 100
were injured. |
| November 21 |
Constitutional court upholds
September 22 presidential election results. |
| November 24 |
Nagorno Karabagh President
Robert Kocharian is reelected to a five-year presidential term with
86% of the vote. |
| November 26 |
The latest round of OSCE
talks ended in a stalemate. |
| December 3 |
At the end of the OSCE
Lisbon Summit, the OSCE Chairman-in-Office issued a statement setting
three principles which should form part of the settlement of the Nagorno
Karabagh conflict. All OSCE participating States except for Armenia
voted to support these principles |