U.S. President Donald Trump has lavished praise on Americans of Armenian descent and said his administration is “working” to address their concerns.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Wednesday warned that the hostilities around Nagorno-Karabakh could escalate into a “regional war” and said Iran will not tolerate the presence of foreign fighters near its northern border close to the Karabakh conflict zone.
Armenia is holding talks with Russia to buy more Sukhoi Su-30SM fighter jets for its armed forces, Defense Minister Davit Tonoyan said over the weekend.
A senior Armenian official says Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s congratulatory message to Belarusian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka on his disputed reelection was in line with the agenda of Armenia’s peaceful 2018 revolution.
The National Assembly will debate and almost certainly pass on Tuesday further legal amendments designed to complete the controversial dismissal of three of the nine members of Armenia’s Constitutional Court.
The United States has allocated $5.4 million in fresh assistance to Armenia designed to combat the coronavirus epidemic, U.S. Ambassador Lynne Tracy said on Thursday.
Azerbaijan violated a key European convention by pardoning, rewarding and glorifying an Azerbaijani army officer who hacked to death a sleeping Armenian colleague in Hungary in 2004, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled on Tuesday.
As the spread of coronavirus in Armenia continued unabated on Sunday Health Minister Arsen Torosian warned that the authorities may soon be unable to hospitalize or isolate most infected people.
A leading U.S. specialist in genocide studies sees this year’s “virtual commemorations” of the Armenian genocide conditioned by the need to cope with the spread of a deadly virus as potentially a new additional way for reaching out for a stronger global recognition in the future.
President Armen Sarkissian has said that he feels the pain of scores of poor Armenians who have lost their jobs and other sources of income due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Campaigning officially began in Armenia on Monday for a referendum on constitutional changes sought by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian and denounced by his political opponents.
Lawyers for Constitutional Court Chairman Hrayr Tovmasian insisted on Monday that law-enforcement authorities have brought criminal charges against him in violation of Armenian law.
A member of Armenia’s Constitutional Court has again rejected financial incentives to resign which have been offered to her and her colleagues by the government.
Judge Vahe Grigorian has urged the Armenian parliament to step in to resolve what he describes as a crisis in the Constitutional Court whose chairman’s legitimacy is disputed by the government.
The outgoing head of the European Union Delegation in Yerevan, Piotr Switalski, heaped praise on Armenia’s current government on Monday, saying that it is successfully combatting corruption and pursuing a “responsible” foreign policy.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian said on Wednesday that the holding of parliamentary elections in Armenia widely recognized as democratic has been the most important achievement of his 14-month rule.
A senior European Union diplomat on Thursday praised Armenian-Azerbaijani negotiations held in recent months and expressed hope for progress towards the resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
Zareh Sinanyan, Armenia’s newly appointed commissioner general of Diaspora affairs, has insisted that his office has a higher status than the Ministry of Diaspora abolished by the Armenian government earlier this year.
The European Union is prepared in principle to finance “very costly” infrastructure projects proposed by the Armenian government, the head of the EU Delegation in Yerevan, Piotr Switalski, said on Friday.
President Armen Sarkissian has described as “memorable” the unprecedented mass protests that brought down Armenia’s former government one year ago.
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