A U.S. human rights lawyer representing Ruben Vardanyan urged Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian on Tuesday to do “much more” for the release of his client and the other Armenian prisoners held in Azerbaijan.
The Armenian Foreign Ministry stepped up on Friday its carefully worded criticism of the ongoing trials of Armenian prisoners in Azerbaijan as it faced protests by activists accusing Yerevan of doing little to secure their release.
Armenia and Azerbaijan continue to disagree on two provisions of a draft bilateral peace treaty, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian said on Wednesday one day after Baku responded to Yerevan’s most recent proposals designed to bridge their remaining differences.
Azerbaijan has responded to Armenia’s most recent proposals designed to bridge their remaining differences on a bilateral peace treaty, according to the Armenian Foreign Ministry.
Justice Minister Srbuhi Galian refused to say on Thursday what the Armenian government is doing to try to secure the release of eight former leaders of Nagorno-Karabakh standing trial in Azerbaijan.
Four years after its defeat in the war with Azerbaijan, Armenia has a chance to become a truly sovereign and independent country, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian claimed late on Monday.
Armenia remains ready to establish conventional transport links with Azerbaijan, Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan said on Thursday in response to Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev’s latest demands for a land corridor through a key Armenian region.
Two days after Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev made fresh threats of military action against Armenia, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian voiced support on Thursday for the dissolution of the OSCE Minsk Group on Nagorno-Karabakh demanded by Baku.
Armenia and Azerbaijan are due to resume later this month negotiations on delineating their long border.
Catholicos Garegin II’s New Year’s Eve address to the nation will not be made available to Armenian Public Television because the government-controlled broadcaster has again refused to air it right before Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s message, the Armenian Apostolic Church said on Thursday.
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev listed multiple preconditions for signing a peace accord with Armenia in an interview with a Russian state broadcaster publicized on Wednesday.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian has confirmed his intention to appoint an acting mayor of Gyumri ahead of an early municipal election expected in Armenia’s second largest city.
Armenia has not participated in the COP29 climate summit in Baku because of Azerbaijan’s failure to free any of at least 23 Armenian prisoners held by it, a senior official in Yerevan indicated on Thursday.
German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock made a brief stopover in Yerevan late on Tuesday as she flew to Baku to attend the COP29 climate summit held there.
Armenian pro-government and opposition politicians and a representative of Nagorno-Karabakh’s exiled leadership on Thursday shrugged off Russia’s claim that the Karabakh Armenians can safely return to their homeland recaptured by Azerbaijan one year ago.
The head of Armenia's Investigative Committee, Argishti Kyaramian, bitterly argued with two pro-government lawmakers and nearly came to blows with one of them during a parliamentary hearing in Yerevan on Tuesday.
Turkish parliament speaker Numan Kurtulmus has reiterated Ankara’s calls for a land corridor that would connect Azerbaijan to its Nakhichevan exclave as well as Turkey through Armenia.
Azerbaijan’s top military general has accused European Union monitors deployed along Armenia’s border with his country of heightening tensions in the region and hampering efforts to end the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict.
Armenia and Azerbaijan could open their border to trade and travel “only with Russia’s participation,” Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexei Overchuk said in televised remarks aired late on Tuesday.
Armenia’s government did not move to evacuate Armenian nationals or urge them to leave Lebanon right after the start of Israel’s ground offensive against Hezbollah on Tuesday.
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