Officials of the RA Foreign Ministry and Armenian Embassy in China as well as members of the Armenian Olympic team took part in the solemn opening ceremony.
Kamer Kasim: Armenia must be willing to change its attitude on three key matters currently harming Turkey-Armenian relations for the football diplomacy to achieve any meaningful results.
Matthew Bryza: to reach a political settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict, Armenia and Azerbaijan will eventually have to reach a compromise on NK's status.
"For a long time the legacy left by Sozhenitsyn will be a guiding star for the spiritual and moral education of the generations," President Sargsyan's message says.