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.
Armenia must cede more territory to Azerbaijan to avoid another attack by its neighbor, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian told residents of Armenian border villages that would be gravely affected by that unilateral concession.
Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan on Friday did not deny the Armenian government’s plans to hand over more border areas to Azerbaijan, echoing Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s claims that they are not part of Armenia’s internationally recognized territory.
Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan indicated on Thursday that he and his Azerbaijani counterpart Jeyhun Bayramov did not make significant progress towards an Armenian-Azerbaijani peace treaty during two-day talks held in Berlin last week.
Azerbaijan is demanding unilateral territorial concessions from Armenia during ongoing discussions on the delimitation of the Armenian-Azerbaijani border, Deputy Prime Minister Mher Grigorian said on Wednesday.
Parliament speaker Alen Simonian on Thursday accused Russia of not honoring its security commitments to Armenia and said Yerevan should consider seeking membership of the European Union.
Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan and his Azerbaijani counterpart Jeyhun Bayramov began on Wednesday two-day negotiations in Berlin aimed at narrowing their countries’ differences on a bilateral peace treaty.
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