The commander-in-chief of Nagorno-Karabakh’s Armenian-backed armed forces said on Thursday that they have acquired significant amounts of new weapons and fortified their frontline positions this year.
Authorities in Nagorno-Karabakh have begun building a second highway that will connect the Armenian-populated disputed territory with Armenia.
Voters in Nagorno-Karabakh went to the polls on Sunday to elect local self-government bodies of the capital Stepanakert and more than 200 other mostly rural communities.
President Serzh Sarkisian led thousands of people on Friday in a march through Stepanakert that marked the 20th anniversary of Nagorno-Karabakh’s declaration of independence from Azerbaijan.
Authorities in Nagorno-Karabakh declared on Tuesday a general amnesty which they said will lead to the early release of about 20 percent of the territory’s prison population.
Voters in Nagorno-Karabakh will go to the polls on September 18 to elect local self-government bodies of the capital Stepanakert and more than 200 other mostly rural communities.
Four members of France’s parliament visited Nagorno-Karabakh on Monday in a show of support for the disputed territory’s pursuit of international recognition of its secession from Azerbaijan.
Nagorno-Karabakh’s Armenian-backed armed forces have acquired significant amounts of new weapons this year and will continue the military buildup in the months to come, their commander-in-chief announced on Friday.
The longer-than-anticipated reconstruction of Nagorno-Karabakh’s sole airport is proceeding rapidly and will be over by the end of September, a senior Karabakh Armenian official said on Friday.
An Armenian soldier was sentenced to life imprisonment on Wednesday for killing four fellow servicemen and wounding three others at a military base in Nagorno-Karabakh last November.
Prime Minister Tigran Sarkisian sounded optimistic about Nagorno-Karabakh’s near-term economic prospects at the start of a two-day visit to the Armenian-populated territory on Monday.
Authorities in Nagorno-Karabakh again have denied that the recent delay in the opening of an airport near Stepanakert is due to warnings that have been made by Azerbaijan, including threats to down aircraft.
Nagorno-Karabakh’s President Bako Sahakian heaped praise on international mediators on Tuesday, saying that they are committed to brokering a just solution to the Karabakh conflict and will do more to prevent another Armenian-Azerbaijani war.
Possible peace agreements reached by Armenia and Azerbaijan could not be put into practice without being approved by Nagorno-Karabakh’s ethnic Armenian leadership, a senior official in Stepanakert warned on Tuesday.
International mediators met with Azerbaijan’s leaders in Baku and proceeded to Nagorno-Karabakh on Tuesday during their latest round of shuttle diplomacy coming amid fresh hopes for a breakthrough in the Armenian-Azerbaijani negotiating process.
The launch of first commercial flights to and from Nagorno-Karabakh in two decades appears to have been postponed indefinitely despite the virtual completion of reconstruction work on the disputed territory’s sole airport.
International mediators crossed the heavily militarized Armenian-Azerbaijani “line of contact” on Wednesday after holding talks with Nagorno-Karabakh’s ethnic Armenian leadership in Stepanakert during their ongoing tour of the conflict zone.
The Azerbaijani military and Nagorno-Karabakh’s ethnic Armenian army exchanged on Thursday prisoners captured in the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict zone.
A group of entrepreneurs from Austria, the Czech Republic and Slovakia offered to invest millions of dollars in Nagorno-Karabakh’s economy during a visit to Stepanakert on Friday.
Nagorno-Karabakh’s sole civilian airport currently undergoing reconstruction will reopen its doors in May for the first commercial flights between the unrecognized republic and Armenia in two decades, a senior official in Stepanakert announced on Wednesday.
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