The United States has invited the Armenian and Azerbaijani foreign ministers to a NATO summit in Washington scheduled for July 9-11, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State James O’Brien announced during a visit to Baku on Friday.
Four years after a ban imposed by the European Union, airlines registered in Armenia are still not allowed to carry out flights to EU member states.
Citing the need to combat street crime, the Armenian government has moved to require shops, cafes, restaurants and other small businesses to install surveillance cameras in front of their premises.
Armenian prosecutors have dropped criminal charges brought against six suspects in a corruption investigation that led to the house arrest of former Economy Minister Vahan Kerobian earlier this year.
A senior official has defended the Armenian government for spending nearly $6 million on American rapper Snoop Dogg’s concert in Yerevan that was originally scheduled for September 23, 2023.
An Abu Dhabi-based company appears to have put on hold plans to build Armenia’s first massive solar power plant.
Georgia is ready to help Armenia and Azerbaijan negotiate a peace treaty, Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze said during an official visit to Yerevan on Monday.
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg commended Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian for pursuing a “more independent” foreign policy and deepening Armenia’s ties with the U.S.-led alliance when he visited Yerevan on Tuesday.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian signaled on Tuesday his readiness to accept Azerbaijan’s demands for Armenia to withdraw from four border villages.
A senior executive of a major software company and her former colleague related to parliament speaker Alen Simonian were released from custody on Monday about two weeks after being arrested in a corruption investigation openly criticized by some Armenian officials.
Transparency International has barely upgraded Armenia’s position in its annual survey of corruption perceptions around the world, again noting a lack of significant improvement in the country.
Turkey is still not taking any steps to implement interim normalization agreements reached with Armenia in 2022, Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan said on Tuesday.
Azerbaijan has reversed in recent weeks progress made in peace talks with Armenia, Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan insisted on Tuesday.
Armenia must adopt a new constitution reflecting the “new geopolitical environment” in the region, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian said in remarks publicized on Friday.
Armenia’s government approved on Thursday a concessional loan worth 3.5 billion drams ($8.6 million) to a U.S.-Armenian joint venture that relocated, for security reasons, a metallurgical plant which it began building on the border with Azerbaijan last year.
Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan indicated on Wednesday that Azerbaijan is reluctant to explicitly recognize Armenia’s borders through a bilateral peace treaty discussed by the two sides.
Armenia and Azerbaijan should sign a peace treaty before delimiting their long border, a senior Azerbaijani official said on Tuesday.
Russia has denied admitting that its leading state-owned TV channels have violated terms of their retransmission in Armenia agreed by the governments of the two countries three years ago.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian on Thursday reaffirmed Armenia’s readiness to establish transport links with neighboring Azerbaijan and Turkey while insisting that all railways and roads passing through Armenian territory must be under Yerevan’s full control.
Despite the fact that Armenia will not participating in the November 23 summit of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) in Minsk, the Russian-led defense bloc “continues to work on sending an observation mission to Armenia.”
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