Armenia’s armed forces received significant amounts of new weapons and ammunition last year, Defense Minister Suren Papikian said on Wednesday.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian on Tuesday pointedly declined to back Nagorno-Karabakh residents’ right to self-determination, highlighting a major change in Armenia’s traditional policy on the conflict with Azerbaijan.
Azerbaijan offered to hold more talks with Nagorno-Karabakh’s representatives on Monday three days after reportedly again blocking Armenia’s supplies of natural gas to Karabakh.
Azerbaijani officials met with Nagorno-Karabakh’s representatives on Wednesday for the second time in less than a week to discuss Azerbaijan’s continuing blockade of the Lachin corridor.
Pro-government lawmakers criticized the Armenian police for a sharp rise in drug trafficking in the country when they met with Interior Minister Vahe Ghazarian late on Tuesday.
Armenia and Azerbaijan continue to disagree on some key terms of a bilateral peace treaty discussed by them, parliament speaker Alen Simonian said on Tuesday.
Echoing Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev’s demands, a senior Armenian pro-government lawmaker said on Tuesday that Ruben Vardanyan, the Nagorno-Karabakh premier, was “sent” to Stepanakert by Russia and must resign.
Nagorno-Karabakh’s leadership has rejected Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev’s condition for direct negotiations between Baku and the authorities in Stepanakert.
A senior member of the main opposition Hayastan alliance downplayed on Friday the significance of the latest Turkish-Armenian negotiations, saying that Ankara is sticking to its preconditions for normalizing relations with Yerevan.
Armenia and Turkey have agreed to speed up efforts to normalize their relations, Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan said on Thursday after his landmark visit to Ankara.
Turkey will not change its policy towards Armenia despite Yerevan’s gestures of goodwill following the devastating earthquakes in southeastern Turkey, Armenian opposition leaders said on Monday.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian gave on Wednesday another reason for his reluctance to have monitors from the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) deployed to Armenia’s border with Azerbaijan.
Responding to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, Armenian pro-government lawmakers reiterated on Friday a condition set by Yerevan for the deployment of monitors from the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) to Armenia’s border with Azerbaijan.
An Armenian military officer was arrested and charged with negligence on Thursday in connection with last week’s deaths of 15 soldiers.
The Armenian authorities continued to face tough questions from human rights activists and other critics on Friday one day after 15 soldiers died at their military barracks destroyed by a major fire.
Fifteen soldiers were killed and three others seriously injured in what authorities said was a major fire that broke out at a military barracks in Armenia early on Thursday.
Ruben Vardanyan, the Nagorno-Karabakh premier, refused to resign at the weekend amid speculation that the Armenian government is seeking his ouster because of Azerbaijan’s continuing blockade of Karabakh’s land link with Armenia.
French parliament speaker Yael Braun-Pivet expressed serious concern over Azerbaijan’s continuing blockade of the Lachin Corridor and reaffirmed France’s support for Armenia’s territorial integrity during an official visit to Yerevan on Friday.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian urged Nagorno-Karabakh’s leaders on Thursday to tone down their rhetoric and negotiate with Azerbaijan in order to end the continuing Azerbaijani blockade of the Lachin Corridor.
The Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) on Wednesday reacted cautiously to the cancellation of joint exercises which Russia and other members of the Russian-led military alliance were scheduled to hold in Armenia this year.
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