Official Yerevan dismissed on Friday Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev’s fresh claim that Azerbaijan ended the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict with its victory in the six-week war stopped by a Russian-brokered ceasefire last November.
Armenia and Azerbaijan have still not started negotiations on demarcating their long and contested border, a senior Armenian official said on Thursday.
An Armenian court has refused to allow Robert Kocharian, a former president leading the main opposition Hayastan alliance, to visit Moscow at the invitation of Russia’s ruling party.
The main opposition Hayastan alliance accused the Armenian government on Wednesday of ordering a law-enforcement agency not to prosecute pro-government lawmakers who physically attacked their opposition colleagues on the parliament floor last month.
A key committee of the Armenian parliament on Monday again refused to appoint an outspoken opposition lawmaker as its deputy chairman.
For the second day in a row security guards have been called into the Armenian parliament chamber as another brawl between pro-government and opposition lawmakers broke out during the presentation of the government’s five-year action plan on Wednesday.
The United States has again called for a negotiated settlement of the conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh, this time raising the issue of the region’s status.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian proposed that Russia deploy more troops along Armenia’s border with Azerbaijan after Armenian and Azerbaijani forces stationed there again exchanged fire early on Thursday.
Former President Serzh Sarkisian’s opposition alliance said on Wednesday that it too will accept its seats in Armenia’s new parliament despite refusing to recognize Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s victory in last month’s parliamentary elections.
The ruling Civil Contract party confirmed on Monday reports that it will install one of its leading members, Alen Simonian, as the speaker of Armenia’s newly elected parliament.
The United States has pledged to continue to seek a peaceful resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh together with Russia and France, the two other co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group.
Former secretary of Armenia’s Security Council Armen Grigorian has been appointed first deputy minister of foreign affairs in a move that ruling party representatives see as a prelude to his appointment to the currently vacant ministerial position.
Political groups led by former Presidents Levon Ter-Petrosian and Serzh Sarkisian may still agree to join forces to participate in the upcoming parliamentary elections, a prominent opposition figure said on Monday.
Former President Levon Ter-Petrosian has accused the Armenian authorities of planning to hold snap parliamentary elections in violation of the country’s constitution.
Former President Robert Kocharian has again expressed confidence that an emerging opposition force led by him will be Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s principal challenger in parliamentary elections expected in June.
U.S. President Joe Biden is expected to recognize the 1915 mass killings of Armenians in Ottoman Turkey as genocide, according to multiple Western media reports.
Onik Gasparian, Armenia’s former top general controversially replaced last month, called on Friday for a parliamentary inquiry into the political and military authorities’ handling of last year’s war in Nagorno-Karabakh.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian on Wednesday blamed former Presidents Serzh Sarkisian and Robert Kocharian for Armenia’s defeat in last year’s war with Azerbaijan, sparking uproar from his detractors.
Armenia will maintain close ties with Russia regardless of the outcome of its parliamentary elections planned for June, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian said in an interview published on Tuesday.
Armenia’s Constitutional Court has started the examination of applications from former President Robert Kocharian and a lower court judge regarding the compliance of a penal code article to the country’s basic law.
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