The Armenian authorities rejected on Tuesday opposition claims that they are not doing enough to unblock the sole road connecting Nagorno-Karabakh to Armenia, saying that it is controlled by Russian peacekeepers.
Deputy Prime Minister Hambardzum Matevosian and Education Minister Vahram Dumanian resigned on Monday three days after the reelection of a state university head at odds with the Armenian government.
Armenia and Azerbaijan are unlikely to finalize a bilateral peace treaty in the coming weeks due to lingering disagreements on its key terms, Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan said on Wednesday.
The pro-government majority in the National Assembly has appointed a former senior law-enforcement official as a member of a state body overseeing Armenia’s courts.
The Armenian authorities have confirmed that they will not try to change the country’s parliamentary system of government through constitutional changes planned by them.
A senior Armenian official on Monday accused Azerbaijan of planning to close the sole road connecting Nagorno-Karabakh to Armenia.
Armenia’s parliament voted down on Friday a draft resolution rejecting any settlement that would restore Azerbaijan’s full control over Nagorno-Karabakh.
A leading member of the main opposition Hayastan alliance on Wednesday downplayed the resignation of three of its deputies who disagreed with its decision to end a boycott of the Armenian parliament.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian has moved to gain full and direct control over a state agency that provides bodyguards to him and other senior Armenian officials.
Armenia and Azerbaijan again accused each other of ceasefire violations along their restive border, reporting shooting in the direction of their respective military positions on the night of November 9.
The government has moved to enact legislation that would make it a crime to publicly call for Armenia to “renounce its sovereignty.”
Russia remains the main guarantor of Nagorno-Karabakh’s security and “de facto independence,” Arayik Harutiunian, the Karabakh president, said late on Thursday.
The Armenian opposition said on Thursday that it will ask the Constitutional Court to invalidate the controversial appointment of a longtime ally of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian as head of the Central Election Commission (CEC).
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s administration continues to criticize the Collective-Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) for not openly supporting Armenia in the conflict with Azerbaijan but remains careful not to pull out of the Russian-led military alliance.
The Russian ambassador in Yerevan, Sergei Kopyrkin, on Thursday dismissed complaints that Russia has failed to support Armenia during and after the latest escalation of its conflict with Azerbaijan.
Over three dozen nongovernmental organizations on Thursday condemned the violent break-up of a protest staged by angry parents of Armenian soldiers killed during the 2020 war in Nagorno-Karabakh and demanded the resignation of the national police chief.
Four dozen angry parents of Armenian soldiers killed in the 2020 war in Nagorno-Karabakh were detained on Wednesday as they tried to prevent Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian from laying flowers at Armenia’s main military ceremony.
Armenia’s main opposition groups announced another change of tactics on Friday, citing the failure of their attempts to topple Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian with street protests launched in May.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian described his latest talks with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev as “not easy” but gave no other details on Thursday.
The leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan will meet again in Brussels on August 31 for talks to be hosted by the European Union’s top official, it was announced on Thursday.
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