Armenia was among 128 countries that voted late on Thursday for a UN General Assembly resolution rejecting Washington’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev urged Muslim countries to avoid close relations with Armenia as he attended on Wednesday an emergency summit of their leaders held in response to the U.S. decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.
The executive body of the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) has reportedly told Russia to reverse its controversial decision to stop recognizing the validity of driving licenses issued by Armenia, a member of the Russian-led trade bloc.
Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoygu discussed military cooperation with Azerbaijan as well as issues pertaining to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict settlement during his visit to Baku on August 14-15, according to Russian and Azerbaijani media.
Armenia accused Azerbaijan on Monday of trying to walk away from confidence-building agreements that were reached by the presidents of the two states following last month’s heavy fighting around Nagorno-Karabakh.
Armenia’s ambassador to Ukraine has come under fire from a Ukrainian media outlet after it emerged that he lives in a luxury house in Kiev belonging to a fugitive crony of Viktor Yanukovich, the country’s deposed former president.
A senior member of the Moscow-based Russian Armenian union has denied that an upcoming trip of a group of motorcyclists to Nagorno-Karabakh will involve members of the controversial nationalist biker gang linked with the Kremlin.
Nagorno-Karabakh’s ethnic Armenian authorities have refused to consider the release of two Azerbaijani nations who were convicted and jailed last year on charges of committing a number of crimes, including a teenager’s murder.
Armenia’s parliament has decided to send a fact-finding mission to Nagorno-Karabakh that will investigate local authorities’ violent response to members of an Armenian opposition group attempting to rally supporters in Karabakh.
An opposition member of the Armenian parliament has accused her pro-government colleagues of deliberately foiling a debate on a bill that would formally recognize the independence of Nagorno-Karabakh.
Two Azerbaijani men accused by ethnic Armenian authorities in Karabakh of “illegally crossing the border” and “committing acts of sabotage”, including the killing of a teen, went on trial in the unrecognized republic’s capital Stepanakert on Monday amid protests from Baku that demands repatriation of its citizens.
Armenia on Monday strongly condemned the reported destruction by Islamic State militants of an Armenian church in eastern Syria that has also served as a memorial to the victims of the 1915 genocide in Ottoman Turkey.
A key member of Nagorno-Karabakh’s Armenian-backed leadership has publicly spoken out against an Armenian-Azerbaijani peace formula that has been advanced by the United States, Russia and France for almost a decade.
Members of Nagorno-Karabakh’s legislature have called for an immediate release of an ethnic Armenian businessman who was arrested in Russia last week on suspicion of having ties with an organized criminal group.
The arrest of a wealthy Russia-based Armenian businessman in Moscow over alleged criminal connections has elicited a strong reaction from his family and friends in Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh, with some alleging an ‘Azerbaijani scheme’ behind the development.
An affluent Armenian businessman based in Russia has been held for questioning over alleged connections with a criminal gang, Russian media reported on Wednesday.
The political leaderships of Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh have some differences on how to resolve the long-running conflict with Azerbaijan, a senior official in Stepanakert acknowledged on Wednesday.
The U.S., Russian and French mediators were confronted by angry Armenian settlers opposed to any territorial concessions to Azerbaijan as they travelled from Armenia to Nagorno-Karabakh through the Lachin corridor at the weekend.
Crimea’s secession from Ukraine and ongoing annexation to Russia has set a positive precedent for the resolution of the conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh, authorities in the disputed territory declared on Tuesday.
Armenia has called on European businesspeople to invest in its economy, giving assurances that such investments are the easiest way for cooperation with other former Soviet states.
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