Senior Russian lawmakers on Wednesday strongly condemned Armenian parliament speaker Alen Simonian for criticizing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine during a meeting of his counterparts from European Union member states held in Spain earlier this week.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian urged Armenians to “overcome the trauma” of their ethnic kin massacred by the Ottoman Turks and stop yearning for their “lost homeland” as they marked the 109th anniversary of the genocide on Wednesday.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian has again threatened to pull Armenia out of the Russian-led Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) accused by his government of not defending the South Caucasus country.
Armenia must change its constitution and open an extraterritorial corridor to the Nakhichevan exclave if it wants to make peace with Azerbaijan, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said on Tuesday.
The Armenian government began handing over border areas to Azerbaijan on Tuesday amid continuing protests staged by residents of adjacent communities in Armenia’s northern Tavush province concerned about their security.
A convoy of Russian military trucks entered Armenia from Nagorno-Karabakh on Monday as Russia continued to withdraw its peacekeeping troops from the depopulated region recaptured by Azerbaijan last September.
Senior U.S. and European Union diplomats discussed with Armenia’s leaders on Monday the implementation of their controversial border delimitation agreement with Azerbaijan hailed by Western powers.
Former Foreign Minister Ara Ayvazian and other retired senior diplomats on Monday strongly criticized the Armenian government’s foreign policy, saying that it has only added to grave national security threats facing the country.
Hundreds of residents of border villages in Armenia’s northern Tavush province blocked a key national highway for the third consecutive day on Monday in protest against the Armenian government’s decision to hand over four adjacent areas to Azerbaijan.
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian has touted the latest border arrangement with Azerbaijan, praising the fact that the two bitter South Caucasus rivals “have, for the first time, resolved an issue at a negotiating table.”
Residents of several Armenian communities in the northeastern Tavush province began protests late on Friday after the authorities of Armenia and Azerbaijan announced a border delimitation deal under which Baku will regain control of four formerly Azeri-populated villages in the area.
Armenia has agreed to return four abandoned border villages that it has controlled since the early 1990s to Azerbaijan as the initial step in defining the frontier between the two bitter South Caucasus rivals, the countries said in identical statements on Friday.
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