A leading member of the opposition Armenian National Congress (HAK) demanded on Thursday an official inquiry into the June 18-19 gun battle in Nagorno-Karabakh that left at least four Armenian soldiers dead.
The European Union and NATO on Wednesday added their voice to international mediators’ concerns about the worst ceasefire violation in Nagorno-Karabakh in over two years that was reported late last week.
A senior official from the World Bank urged the Armenian authorities on Friday to clamp down on what he described as a huge informal sector of the domestic economy.
The upcoming meeting of the Armenian and Azerbaijani presidents will not pave the way for the resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, a spokesman for Karabakh President Bako Sahakian said on Thursday.
The Armenian government will enact no further changes in a controversial law on broadcasting criticized by domestic media watchdogs as well as foreign governments and human rights bodies, an official said on Wednesday.
Government claims that hundreds of thousands of foreign tourists visit Armenia each year are wide of the mark, according to private tour operators and other individuals familiar with the country’s tourism industry.
Armenia’s ongoing economic recovery accelerated further in April, with Gross Domestic Product increasing by 7.2 percent year on year during the first four months of this year, according to official statistics released on Thursday.
Czech Prime Minister Jan Fischer affirmed his country’s neutrality on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict on Monday just days after his foreign minister reportedly backed Azerbaijan’s stance in the ongoing peace talks with Armenia.
The three political parties represented in Armenia’s government denied on Monday aggressively pushing, through their ministers, for the appointment of new civil servants affiliated with them.
The head of a body overseeing Armenia’s state bureaucracy on Thursday accused government ministers of aggressively pushing patronage appointments of new civil servants affiliated with their respective political parties.
The Armenian economy will expand by at least 3 percent this year, the Central Bank said on Wednesday in a significant upward revision of its earlier growth projections.
Finance Minister Tigran Davtian sounded on Wednesday a note of caution over Armenia’s renewed economic growth, saying that the domestic economy will take at least one year to recover from its first downturn since the 1990s.
A senior U.S. official has reiterated Washington’s calls for Armenia and Turkey to quickly and unconditionally ratify their U.S.-brokered agreements to normalize bilateral relations. (UPDATED)
Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian on Thursday refrained from publicizing Armenia’s position on international mediators’ recently modified plan to resolve the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. He also denied that Azerbaijan has largely accepted the proposed peace deal.
A new economic manifesto unveiled by the opposition Armenian National Congress (HAK) has prompted an unexpectedly positive reaction from Armenia’s leadership, with Prime Minister Tigran Sarkisian saying that it has many similarities with his government’s reform agenda.
Prime Minister Tigran Sarkisian rejected on Tuesday strong criticism of one of his key ministers voiced by Gagik Tsarukian, an influential businessman whose Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK) is represented in his cabinet.
Armenia’s leaders thanked Sweden’s parliament on Friday for adopting a resolution that recognizes the World War One-era mass killings and deportations of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire as genocide.
Ashot Ghulian, the speaker of Nagorno-Karabakh’s parliament, on Friday brushed aside talk of an impending end to the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict, saying that attempts to “hasten” its settlement would be counterproductive.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Friday invited President Serzh Sarkisian to visit Washington next month, in a telephone conversation that appears to have centered on Armenia’s stalled rapprochement with Turkey.
Utility service regulators on Monday kept unchanged the price of electricity for Armenian households despite the increased cost of Russian natural gas delivered to the country.
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