France will provide more weapons and other military assistance to Armenia to help the South Caucasus country defend its territory, French Defense Minister Sebastien Lecornu said during a first-ever visit to Yerevan on Friday.
France’s Defense Minister Sebastien Lecornu flew to Yerevan on Thursday as Armenia reportedly received French military hardware acquired by it last October.
A member of Nagorno-Karabakh’s exiled leadership said on Tuesday that it is taking “concrete steps” for the eventual repatriation of the region’s ethnic Armenian population displaced by last September’s Azerbaijani military offensive.
Armenia's Foreign Ministry has blocked access to background information about the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict posted on its official website following complaints voiced by a senior Azerbaijani official late last week.
It is still not clear whether Azerbaijan has agreed to resume negotiations with Armenia mediated by the European Union, a senior Armenian lawmaker said on Friday.
A state body overseeing Armenian Public Radio has moved to take action against its executive director Garegin Khumarian who has openly criticized Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s latest statements on the conflict with Azerbaijan.
Armenia must change its constitution in order to make peace with Azerbaijan, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said on Thursday, stoking Armenian opposition claims that Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian has already agreed to make such a concession to Baku.
Opposition leaders accused Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian on Tuesday of being ready to make another concession to Azerbaijan and Turkey after one of his top political allies called for a change of Armenia’s national anthem and coat of arms.
A fugitive video blogger who helped Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian install a new mayor of Yerevan in October has accused the Armenian government of breaking up his own party that did unexpectedly well in municipal elections.
The United States keeps trying to host fresh talks between the Armenian and Azerbaijani foreign ministers that had originally been scheduled for November, a senior Armenian official said late on Monday.
An Armenian-Azerbaijani peace treaty should contain a concrete mechanism for delimiting the long border between the two South Caucasus nations, Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan insisted on Wednesday.
Armenia is moving away from Russia and seeking closer links with NATO, according to a senior official from the U.S.-led alliance.
Armenia may agree to sign a peace treaty with Azerbaijan before delimiting the Armenian-Azerbaijani border, parliament speaker Alen Simonian indicated on Friday.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian has rejected Russian President Vladimir Putin’s latest statement blaming him for Azerbaijan’s September military offensive in Nagorno-Karabakh and the resulting exodus of the region’s ethnic Armenian population.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian appears to have suggested that Azerbaijan is dragging its feet on a peace treaty with Armenia sought by the international community.
Official Baku and Yerevan denied on Thursday an Armenian official’s claim that Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov has agreed to meet with his Armenian counterpart Ararat Mirzoyan in Washington next month.
Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan on Wednesday urged Azerbaijan to agree to restart peace talks with Armenia mediated by the United States and the European Union.
Armenia and Azerbaijan did not exchange prisoners as of Tuesday afternoon almost one week after reaching an agreement to that effect welcomed by the international community.
A senior Armenian lawmaker expressed hope on Friday that the United States will press Azerbaijan to agree to fresh U.S.-mediated peace talks with Armenia.
The Armenian parliament effectively fired on Thursday the head of a state anti-corruption body who has investigated many pro-government lawmakers suspected of illicit enrichment, conflict of interest or other corrupt practices.
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