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.
More than seven months after complaints voiced by Azerbaijan, Armenia's Foreign Ministry continues to block access to background information about the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict that was posted on its official website.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian repeated on Tuesday his proposal to sign an interim peace deal with Azerbaijan one day after it was again rejected by Baku.
Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan on Monday declined to clarify whether Azerbaijan has agreed to uphold a 1991 declaration championed by Armenia in a draft peace treaty discussed by the two sides.
Azerbaijan is reluctant to uphold a 1991 declaration championed by Armenia in bilateral peace agreements, a senior Armenian lawmaker said on Thursday, contradicting a pro-government colleague’s statement.
Armenia’s leadership is refusing to disclose its remaining disagreements with Azerbaijan that hamper the singing of a bilateral peace treaty.
Armenia’s government did not react on Thursday to an apparent Russian warning not to withdraw from the November 2020 ceasefire that stopped the war in Nagorno-Karabakh or other Armenian-Azerbaijani agreements brokered by Moscow.
The signing of an Armenian-Azerbaijani peace treaty is conditional on a change of Armenia’s constitution, a senior aide to Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev said in a newspaper interview published on Tuesday.
Armenia believes that the question of whether to continue the process under the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe’s (OSCE) Minsk Group should be considered “within the context of signing a peace treaty” with Azerbaijan, according to the country’s Foreign Ministry.
Russian authorities have banned large gatherings and mass events in Kursk amid reports of Ukrainian forces advancing in the region, which has been under attack since August 6, local ethnic Armenians have told RFE/RL’s Armenian Service on Friday.
The United States remains concerned with the fate of at least 23 Armenian prisoners of war and civilians still held in Azerbaijan, a U.S. State Department spokesman said on Thursday.
Armenia should not follow the example of Ukraine in deepening its ties with the European Union and other Western powers, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov warned on Wednesday.
The United States will appoint a resident adviser to Armenia’s Defense Ministry as part of deepening ties between the two nations, a senior U.S. official confirmed in an interview published late on Wednesday.
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