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.
Parliament speaker Alen Simonian on Tuesday pointedly declined to say whether Armenia will champion Nagorno-Karabakh’s right to self-determination in negotiations on a peace treaty with Azerbaijan.
Armenia’s political leadership has come under fresh fire after trying to dispel opposition concerns about its position on an Armenian-Azerbaijani peace treaty sought by Azerbaijan.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian defended his conciliatory policy towards Azerbaijan as he met with Nagorno-Karabakh’s leadership in Yerevan on Friday.
Armenian opposition leaders have blamed Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian for the death of a pregnant woman hit by a police car that led his motorcade in Yerevan.
Opposition leader Artur Vanetsian predicted mass demonstrations against the Armenian government on Thursday as he continued a nonstop sit-in in Yerevan’s Liberty Square.
Armenia plans to bring up the issue of Nagorno-Karabakh’s status during upcoming talks on an Armenian-Azerbaijani peace treaty sought by Azerbaijan, Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan said on Friday.
Opposition lawmakers expressed concern on Tuesday over the Armenian government’s stated readiness to negotiate a comprehensive “peace treaty” with Azerbaijan amid heightened tensions in Nagorno-Karabakh.
Two opposition factions in the Armenian parliament have leveled harsh criticism at the government, accusing it of not doing enough to ensure the security of Nagorno-Karabakh.
As a Minsk Group Co-Chair, the United States urges Armenia and Azerbaijan to continue and intensify their diplomatic engagement to find comprehensive solutions to all outstanding issues, the U.S. embassy in Yerevan said on Thursday.
The Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun) signaled on Thursday its readiness to launch a more broad-based opposition movement and street protests aimed at toppling Armenia’s government.
The two opposition alliances represented in the Armenian parliament said on Wednesday that they will boycott the inauguration ceremony of the country’s new president elected by lawmakers last week.
In a vote boycotted by its two opposition factions, the Armenian parliament elected on Thursday Minister of High-Technology Industry Vahagn Khachatrian as the new president of the republic.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian on Friday signaled concerns over the economic impact of Western sanctions, imposed on Russia over its invasion of Ukraine, on other members of the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU), including Armenia.
Nagorno-Karabakh’s ethnic Armenian leadership on Tuesday welcomed Russia’s recognition of two breakaway regions in eastern Ukraine as independent republics.
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