Armenia’s anti-corruption body has launched a criminal probe following claims by the country’s top investigator regarding attempts at interference in an investigation allegedly orchestrated by a pro-government lawmaker.
Official Yerevan says no revision of the Armenian-Russian interstate agreement on the status of Russian border guards in Armenia is planned following a decision earlier this month that a checkpoint at the border with Iran will be manned exclusively by Armenian personnel beginning next year.
The Armenian police have done a good job in the last five years despite a significant increase in various crimes committed in the country, Interior Minister Vahe Ghazarian insisted on Tuesday.
Armenia has no plans yet to remove Russian borders from its borders with Turkey and Iran after their impending withdrawal from the sole Armenian-Iranian border crossing, a senior official in Yerevan said on Thursday.
The impending withdrawal of Russian border guards from Armenia’s sole border crossing with Iran will boost its sovereignty, a senior Armenian lawmaker said on Wednesday.
Russian President Vladimir Putin held separate talks with the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan in Moscow on Tuesday after apparently failing to organize a trilateral meeting with them.
Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan on Monday refused to sign up to statements by his Russian and other ex-Soviet counterparts implicitly denouncing Western sanctions against Russia and calling for a “multipolar” international security architecture.
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev appears to have set further conditions for ending his country’s conflict with Armenia amid Yerevan’s continuing offers to swiftly sign a bilateral peace deal.
Senior Armenian and Iranian officials reaffirmed their governments’ pledges to significantly increase trade between the two neighboring countries when they inaugurated a large Iranian shopping center just outside Yerevan on Monday.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian pledged to help make the world a better place when he addressed the UN General Assembly in New York late on Monday hours after Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev made fresh threats of military action against Armenia.
Ruben Vardanyan, an Armenian billionaire and former Nagorno-Karabakh premier jailed by Azerbaijan, hit back at Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s recent scathing comments about him in a statement released by his Yerevan-based office on Friday.
Armenia must have full control over any road or railway that would connect Azerbaijan to its Nakhichevan exclave through Armenian territory, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian insisted on Wednesday.
Archbishop Bagrat Galstanian, the leader of an anti-government movement sparked by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s territorial concessions to Azerbaijan, visited the Armenian parliament and met with its two opposition groups on Monday ahead of renewed protests promised by him.
The European Union and Armenia have opened official negotiations on lifting the EU’s visa requirements for Armenian citizens, a process which is expected to take years.
Senior Armenian officials have thanked Iran for reaffirming its strong opposition to land corridors passing through Armenia in response to Russia’s latest push for the opening of such transport links between Azerbaijan and its Nakhichevan exclave.
Armenia’s government does not regard Nagorno-Karabakh’s exiled leaders as legal representatives of the region and its displaced population, parliament speaker Alen Simonian said on Monday.
The Iranian ambassador in Yerevan, Mehdi Sobhani, on Friday appeared to rule out the possibility of Armenia opening an extraterritorial land corridor for Azerbaijan which is strongly opposed by Iran.
An Azerbaijani cargo plane has carried out another flight to and from a military airfield in southern Israel in a sign of continuing Israeli arms supplies to Azerbaijan.
Armenia’s leadership is refusing to disclose its remaining disagreements with Azerbaijan that hamper the singing of a bilateral peace treaty.
Armenia will attend a summit of the BRICS group of major emerging economies in Russia next month, Deputy Foreign Minister Mnatsakan Safarian said on Wednesday.
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