Azerbaijan’s Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov said on Monday that he will again meet with his Armenian counterpart Edward Nalbandian this month to discuss preparations for an Armenian-Azerbaijani summit which international mediators hope will revive the Nagorno-Karabakh peace process.
Armenia and Azerbaijan traded accusations on Monday over what a senior Azerbaijani official described as a failure of fresh talks on Nagorno-Karabakh held by their foreign ministers in Paris last week.
President Serzh Sarkisian will reportedly fly to Tehran this weekend to attend a five-day summit of the Nonaligned Movement, a loose grouping of 120 nations in which Armenia has an observer status.
President Serzh Sarkisian reaffirmed his desire to continue deepening Armenia’s ties with NATO as he met with NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen and addressed the alliance’s top decision-making body in Brussels on Tuesday.
Armenia has the 39th freest economy in the world thanks to a liberal regulatory environment and “competitive” tax rates, according to an annual survey released by two conservative U.S. institutions on Thursday.
Amnesty International criticized the Armenian authorities’ human rights record on Friday, singling out what it sees as their failure to combat police brutality and domestic violence and to introduce “genuine” civilian service.
In a last-minute U-turn, Azerbaijan withdrew late on Thursday a draft resolution on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, strongly opposed by Armenia, from the United Nations General Assembly. (UPDATED)
Armenians in the Ottoman Empire never faced a genocidal government policy and, on the contrary, themselves plotted to exterminate Turks, according to Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
A recognized media law expert in Armenia believes the government is laying the groundwork for rigging the next parliamentary polls by seeking legislation that will seriously restrict the activities of local media.
Former President Robert Kocharian has visited Iran and reaffirmed Armenia’s commitment to further deepen relations with the Islamic Republic, it emerged on Thursday.
Authorities in Armenia appear to have cancelled the planned dispatch of a search and rescue team to Haiti for unknown reasons.
Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan remained adamant in linking the normalization of Turkish-Armenian relations with a resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict after meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama in Washington on Monday.
