U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken called for a “long-term political settlement to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict” late on Wednesday when he appointed a senior diplomat as the new U.S. co-chair of the OSCE Minsk Group.
Armenia considers the possibility of opening several checkpoints along its state border with Azerbaijan, according to a draft decision circulated by the country’s National Security Service.
Russia does not consider “separate criticism” of its peacekeepers in Nagorno-Karabakh to be fair, a senior diplomat in Moscow said on Thursday.
A senior Armenian lawmaker representing Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s Civil Contract party insisted on Friday that Turkey has not set or reaffirmed preconditions for normalizing its relations with Armenia.
A senior member of the ruling Civil Contract party said on Thursday that it will not strip opposition deputies boycotting sessions of Armenia’s parliament of their seats for now.
The leadership of Armenia’s parliament is due to meet later this week to decide whether to try to strip dozens of opposition deputies boycotting parliament sessions of their seats.
Defense Minister Suren Papikian said on Wednesday that he did not order the Armenian military to draft opposition activists in a bid to weaken continuing antigovernment demonstrations in Yerevan.
The National Assembly approved on Wednesday a government proposal to make Armenia’s top military general directly subordinate to the defense minister.
Another opposition lawmaker announced his resignation on Monday amid growing questions about continued opposition presence in Armenia’s parliament.
Ishkhan Saghatelian, a deputy speaker of the Armenian parliament, on Wednesday shrugged off the ruling Civil Contract party’s decision to strip him and another opposition leader of their parliamentary posts.
President Vahagn Khachaturian has defended Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s domestic policies and conciliatory line on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict strongly criticized by the Armenian opposition.
Former National Security Service (NSS) Director Artur Vanetsian has confirmed that his Fatherland party is parting ways with other major opposition forces that have been jointly trying to topple Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian with street protests.
The ruling Civil Contract party moved on Thursday to install an aide to Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian as Armenia’s next chief prosecutor.
The leadership of Armenia’s parliament affiliated with the ruling Civil Contract party has still not carried out its threats to strip opposition lawmakers boycotting parliament sessions of their seats.
An Armenian opposition supporter severely injured by riot police said on Wednesday that he has not been questioned by law-enforcement authorities supposedly investigating the use of force against protesters demanding Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s resignation.
Leaders of Armenia’s and Nagorno-Karabakh’s main opposition groups met late on Monday amid continuing anti-government protests in Yerevan sparked by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s conciliatory policy towards Azerbaijan.
Police fired stun grenades and made many arrests late on Friday in fresh clashes with opposition supporters who continued to demonstrate in Yerevan to demand Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s resignation.
The two opposition blocs represented in Armenia’s parliament have demanded that it officially speak out against any peace accord that would restore Azerbaijan’s control over Nagorno-Karabakh.
Armenia denied on Tuesday Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev’s claim that it has agreed to open a permanent land corridor that will connect Azerbaijan to its Nakhichevan exclave.
The leadership of Armenia’s parliament has threatened to strip its opposition members boycotting sessions of the National Assembly and leading ongoing anti-government protests in Yerevan of their seats.
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