Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev on Friday denounced the United States and the European Union for holding high-level trilateral negotiations with Armenia, saying that they are “directed against Azerbaijan.”
Iran’s and India’s ambassadors in Yerevan on Tuesday stressed the importance of Armenia’s involvement in a new transnational transport corridor planned by their countries.
Leaders from five former Soviet countries that are members of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) met in the Belarusian capital of Minsk on Thursday for a summit that has been skipped by their formal ally, Armenia.
It remained unclear on Tuesday whether the European Union’s top official, Charles Michel, will manage to host fresh talks between Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev before the end of this month.
Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan joined his Azerbaijani, Iranian, Russian and Turkish counterparts in meeting on Monday in Tehran for talks on peace and stability in the South Caucasus.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s latest calls for closer ties between Armenia and the European Union do not herald any major change in his government’s foreign policy, senior Armenian officials insisted on Wednesday.
Official Yerevan neither confirms nor denies the authenticity of a document published by Tigran Petrosian, head of an anti-crisis body affiliated with the Karabakh president, which he said contained proposals made by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov regarding Nagorno-Karabakh late last month.
Armenia’s two leading opposition forces have given no indications yet that they will run in municipal elections in Yerevan slated for September 17.
Armenia’s top election official allied to Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian has dismissed a civic group’s claims that the ruling Civil Contract party is abusing government resources to facilitate its victory in upcoming municipal polls in Yerevan.
The largest opposition faction in the Armenian parliament plans to initiate a special session of the National Assembly in the coming days around adopting documents regarding the process of Armenian-Azerbaijani negotiations.
Former Presidents Robert Kocharian and Serzh Sarkisian on Thursday dismissed through their political allies Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s allegations that they themselves had made far-reaching concessions to Azerbaijan and cannot criticize his conciliatory line on Nagorno-Karabakh.
Russia has boycotted a multilateral discussion on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict initiated by the United States within the framework of the OSCE Minsk Group, the U.S. State Department said on Tuesday.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian appeared satisfied on Monday with the results of his most recent talks with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev mediated by Russia and the European Union.
Meeting for its final session on Friday, Armenia’s outgoing parliament approved a bill that makes it a crime to seriously insult government officials and other public figures.
The Armenian government said on Thursday that it will buy 500,000 doses of coronavirus vaccines soon to step up its vaccination campaign which has made slow progress so far.
A senior member of the main opposition Hayastan bloc confirmed on Tuesday that it will accept its seats in Armenia’s new parliament despite refusing to recognize official results of last month’s elections that gave victory to Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s party.
Defense Minister Vagharshak Harutiunian met on Tuesday with the commander of Russian peacekeeping forces deployed in Nagorno-Karabakh to discuss the continuing military standoff on Armenia’s border with Azerbaijan.
The opposition Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK) remained on Friday in no rush to respond to Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s offer to hold snap general elections.
The Armenian parliament elected on Tuesday a 42-year-old senior judge and former prosecutor as head of the Court of Cassation, the country’s highest body of criminal and administrative justice.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s My Step bloc installed on Friday two new members of a state body empowered to nominate, sanction and fire Armenian judges.
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