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.
An ad hoc government panel met on Wednesday for the first time after being tasked by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian with drafting a new constitution for Armenia demanded by Azerbaijan.
Turkey has reportedly banned a cargo plane from flying from Europe to Armenia through Turkish airspace.
The United States hopes to organize fresh Armenian-Azerbaijani negotiations on the sidelines of next week’s NATO summit in Washington, the U.S. State Department acknowledged on Tuesday.
The United States has invited the Armenian and Azerbaijani foreign ministers to a NATO summit in Washington scheduled for July 9-11, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State James O’Brien announced during a visit to Baku on Friday.
Armenia’s ruling Civil Contract party on Thursday distanced itself from one of its influential parliamentarians who voiced apparent death threats against opposition figures and other individuals trying to topple Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian.
Azerbaijan remains reluctant to recognize Armenia’s borders through a bilateral peace treaty, parliament speaker Alen Simonian indicated on Wednesday.
Residents of Kirants again blocked a local highway on Thursday after the Armenian government resumed preparations for ceding part of the border village in Armenia’s northern Tavush province to Azerbaijan.
Armenia’s two main opposition groups on Thursday asked the Yerevan-based ambassadors of the United States and major European countries to urgently meet with them to discuss what they called growing human rights abuses committed by the Armenian authorities.
A young man has been detained in Armenia on suspicion of hooliganism after confronting a pro-government lawmaker on a bus in Yerevan.
The Russian Foreign Ministry criticized on Thursday Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s upcoming trilateral meeting with top U.S. and European Union officials, saying that it is part of Western efforts to break up Armenia’s alliance with Russia.
The leadership of the Armenian parliament has refused to sign up to a statement by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Russian-led Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) condemning last Friday’s terrorist attack on a concert hall outside Moscow.
Parliament speaker Alen Simonian on Wednesday again questioned the wisdom of having Russian border guards in Armenia while saying that the Armenian government is not considering demanding their withdrawal.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian has signaled that he is in no rush to try to enact a new Armenian constitution demanded by Azerbaijan.
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