Political allies of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian have insisted that he did not deny or question the 1915 Armenian genocide in Ottoman Turkey in remarks that sparked an uproar from Armenian historians, opposition figures and retired diplomats.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian has provoked a storm of criticism from his political opponents and historians after questioning the 1915 Armenian genocide in Ottoman Turkey and the decades-long Armenian campaign for its international recognition.
A U.S. human rights lawyer representing Ruben Vardanyan has said that the Armenian government is doing little to try to secure the release of his client and seven other former leaders of Nagorno-Karabakh standing trial in Azerbaijan.
The Armenian government would not explicitly say on Wednesday whether it is planning to make more territorial concessions to Azerbaijan as a result of the latest agreement on delimiting the Armenian-Azerbaijani border.
Defending the Armenian government’s silence, parliament speaker Alen Simonian declined to condemn on Tuesday the ongoing trials of eight former leaders of Nagorno-Karabakh imprisoned in Azerbaijan.
A top Iranian security official reportedly reaffirmed Iran’s support for Armenia’s position on transport links with Azerbaijan during talks with Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian held in Yerevan on Thursday.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s office said on Tuesday that he may agree to publicize all peace proposals on Nagorno-Karabakh, which had been made by U.S., Russian and French mediators, in response to calls from his critics.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian on Tuesday named a 32-year-woman as head of the Armenian Justice Ministry’s Penitentiary Service managing the country’s prisons.
Former President Ter-Petrosian has blamed Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian for the fall of Nagorno-Karabakh in response to the latter’s critical claims about the former Armenian governments’ policies on the conflict with Azerbaijan.
An Armenian law-enforcement agency has refused to investigate the disclosure by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian of personal communication of a parliament deputy who has been resisting government pressure to resign from the National Assembly.
The Armenian government has indicated plans to introduce drug tests in the country’s schools in response to a sharp rise in drug trafficking and abuse recorded during its nearly seven-year tenure.
The government has moved to establish a new auxiliary force that would reinforce Armenia’s army in times of war.
An Armenian law-enforcement agency has launched a fresh criminal investigation into a lawmaker ousted from the ruling Civil Contract party after defying Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s “request” to resign from the parliament.
The Armenian community in Syria and the war-torn city of Aleppo in particular hopes to receive urgent economic assistance from Armenia, one of its representatives indicated on Wednesday.
A senior representative of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s party on Friday pointedly declined to say whether Armenia is discussing Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev’s further demands in ongoing negotiations on an Armenian-Azerbaijani peace treaty.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian on Wednesday confirmed that he refused to host an upcoming Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) summit and said Armenia will not unfreeze its membership in another Russian-led bloc: the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO).
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian on Tuesday claimed to have successfully coped with grave security challenges facing Armenia, saying that he can now guarantee the country’s survival “for the next century.”
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian has confirmed his intention to appoint an acting mayor of Gyumri ahead of an early municipal election expected in Armenia’s second largest city.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian lambasted a former provincial governor on Thursday one day after naming him as Armenia’s new minister of territorial administration and infrastructures.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian named Armenia’s new ministers of interior and public infrastructures on Wednesday, replacing two of the six senior state officials forced by him to resign on Monday.
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