Prosecutors have asked the Armenian parliament to allow them to bring criminal charges against Seyran Ohanian, the parliamentary leader of the main opposition Hayastan alliance.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian urged Nagorno-Karabakh’s leaders on Thursday to tone down their rhetoric and negotiate with Azerbaijan in order to end the continuing Azerbaijani blockade of the Lachin Corridor.
Political allies of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian toned down their rhetoric on Wednesday after Moscow angrily denied trying to force Armenia to join the “union state” of Russia and Belarus and open a corridor to Azerbaijan’s Nakhichevan exclave.
The United States has expressed serious concern over the reported disruption of natural gas supplies to Nagorno-Karabakh which followed the closure of the sole road connecting it to Armenia.
Senior Armenian officials have praised monitors deployed by the European Union to Armenia’s volatile border with Azerbaijan but not said whether Yerevan is seeking an extension of their two-month mission.
The European Union still hopes to organize another Armenian-Azerbaijani summit in Brussels despite disagreements over its format, an EU diplomatic source said on Tuesday.
Armenia has denied that a draft resolution at the recent Francophonie summit was altered before its final adoption after Azerbaijan’s president claimed that some of the “anti-Azerbaijani” passages were removed from it by “Baku’s friends.”
Sparking a further backlash in Armenia, a senior Russian lawmaker has claimed this week that the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan “does not fall within the competence of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO).”
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will host next week a fresh meeting of his Armenian and Azerbaijani counterparts, Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan announced on Thursday.
Russia believes that Armenia and Azerbaijan should not try to agree on Nagorno-Karabakh’s status in the foreseeable future, a senior Russian diplomat confirmed on Tuesday.
An Armenian pro-government lawmaker claimed on Tuesday that Russia is pressuring Armenia to open a land corridor for Azerbaijan.
Russia has accused the West of pressuring Armenia to cut its traditionally close ties with Moscow in an effort to end Russian presence in the South Caucasus.
Twenty-nine Armenian soldiers and civilians who went missing during last month’s fighting on Armenia’s border with Azerbaijan remain unaccounted for, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian said on Wednesday.
Armenia and Azerbaijan are planning to sign a bilateral peace treaty and delimit their border before the end of this year, according to a senior Armenian official.
Russia is trying to annex Armenia or make it part of its “union state” with Belarus by inciting Azerbaijani military aggression against its regional ally, a newspaper belonging to Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s family alleged on Tuesday.
Former President Robert Kocharian on Wednesday dismissed his predecessor Levon Ter-Petrosian’s calls for the Armenian opposition to rally around Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian and help him sign an unpopular peace deal with Azerbaijan.
Armenia and Azerbaijan have accused each other of violating the ceasefire that stopped heavy fighting on their border last week.
Armenia’s main opposition groups demanded a parliamentary vote of no confidence in Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian on Thursday amid continuing street protests in Yerevan sparked by his remarks on the conflict with Azerbaijan.
Senior Armenian and Azerbaijani government officials met in Moscow on Tuesday for the second round of negotiations on demarcating the long and heavily militarized border between the two states.
The Armenian government reaffirmed support for the OSCE Minsk Group on Friday in response to Azerbaijani criticism of apparent U.S. plans to continue using that mediation format for a resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
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