Armenia’s government took on Wednesday another step towards handing over four border areas to Azerbaijan despite continuing to face angry street protests in Yerevan.
India and Armenia have held what they called “first defense consultations” highlighting their growing military ties.
Police cordoned off a key square and adjacent streets in downtown Yerevan on Wednesday to prevent antigovernment protesters from approaching the venue of an international conference where Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian delivered a speech.
The executive director of an Armenian state hospital was sacked on Wednesday days after signaling support for ongoing antigovernment protests in Yerevan.
An Armenian cleric leading the weeklong antigovernment protests in Yerevan remained reluctant on Tuesday to name a candidate who he believes should replace Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian.
One Armenian journalist has been hit by a police vehicle and another knocked unconscious while covering police crackdowns on protesters in Yerevan demanding Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s resignation.
Armenia still hopes to receive modest military assistance from the European Union, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian said on Tuesday during a visit to Denmark.
Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan on Monday hit out at his predecessor and dozens of other retired diplomats involved in ongoing protests against the Armenian government’s territorial concessions to Azerbaijan.
The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention, a U.S. legal think-tank, has accused Armenia’s Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian of echoing Turkey’s denial of the 1915 Armenian genocide during last month’s commemorations of the 109th anniversary of the tragedy.
At least 171 people demanding Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s resignation were detained on Monday as they again blocked streets in Yerevan, heeding appeals from Archbishop Bagrat Galstanian, the leader of ongoing antigovernment protests there.
An Armenian archbishop leading ongoing antigovernment protests vowed to keep trying to oust Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian as he addressed thousands of supporters who again rallied in Yerevan on Sunday.
Armenia and Azerbaijan continue to disagree on key provisions of a bilateral peace treaty discussed by them, official Yerevan said on Saturday after the foreign ministers of the two states ended two days of fresh negotiations in Kazakhstan.
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