A U.S. human rights lawyer representing Ruben Vardanyan has criticized the Azerbaijani authorities for not allowing him to visit Azerbaijan to see the Armenian billionaire and former Nagorno-Karabakh premier jailed there.
One day after Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian held out hope for a peace deal with Azerbaijan, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev again demanded on Thursday that Armenia change its constitution and ensure the return of Azerbaijanis who lived there until the late 1980s.
Armenia and Azerbaijan agree on about 80 percent of the text of a draft peace treaty discussed by them, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said on Friday.
Russia remains ready to help Armenia and Azerbaijan negotiate a peace treaty and delineate their border, Russian President Vladimir Putin said during a state visit to Baku on Monday.
Pro-government members of the Azerbaijani parliament attacked on Friday a senior cleric leading antigovernment protests in Armenia sparked by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s decision to hand over several disputed border areas to Azerbaijan.
Armenia continued to reject on Friday Azerbaijan’s statements making a peace deal between the two nations conditional on major changes to its constitution and other laws.
More than one month after cancelling a U.S.-mediated meeting between the Armenian and Azerbaijani foreign ministers, Baku has proposed that they hold direct talks at the Armenian-Azerbaijani border.
Armenian officials on Tuesday accused a United Nations mission of covering up “ethnic cleansing” in Nagorno-Karabakh after visiting the region on Sunday in the wake of Azerbaijan’s military offensive.
Nagorno-Karabakh’s representatives met with Azerbaijani officials on Thursday for first talks envisaged by a Russian-brokered agreement to stop Azerbaijan’s latest military offensive in Karabakh launched on Tuesday.
Heavy explosions were reported from Stepanakert and other parts of Nagorno-Karabakh on Tuesday as Azerbaijan announced a large-scale military operation against the Armenian-populated region.
De facto authorities in Nagorno-Karabakh expect Russia to take “active steps” in settling the latest tensions with Azerbaijan over its checkpoint in the Lachin corridor amid Moscow’s plans to replace the commander of its peacekeeping force deployed in the mostly Armenian-populated region.
Armenia unequivocally recognizes Azerbaijan’s territorial integrity and is ready to sign a relevant peace treaty with Baku, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian said on Tuesday.
Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan said on Tuesday that Armenia and Azerbaijan have continued to exchange proposals regarding a bilateral peace treaty despite what he described as Azerbaijani efforts to depopulate Nagorno-Karabakh.
The Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) still stands ready to send monitors to Armenia’s border with Azerbaijan despite a similar mission announced by the European Union, according to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.
Who are the Azerbaijani eco-activists who have come to Shushi “to stem the environmental disaster” and now for the third day are blocking the only road connecting Nagorno-Karabakh with Armenia known as the Lachin Corridor?
The European Union has decided not to extend a two-month monitoring mission launched by it along Armenia’s volatile border with Azerbaijan in October.
Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev said on Friday that he has cancelled upcoming fresh talks with Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian because the latter wants French President Emmanuel Macron to also attend them.
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has accused France of planning what he described as a “dirty provocation” against Baku at the recent Francophonie summit by drafting a final resolution promoting Armenia’s interest, something that he claimed was thwarted by Azerbaijan’s friends.
Russian President Vladimir Putin will hold a separate meeting with Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian on the sidelines of an upcoming summit of a Moscow-led defense bloc in Yerevan, a Kremlin spokesman said on Monday.
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