The Armenian government remained on Thursday in no rush to try to end a continuing general strike that has paralyzed the country’s largest metallurgical enterprise and number one corporate taxpayer.
Armenia’s largest metallurgical enterprise remained paralyzed by a strike on Tuesday as its management and striking workers failed to reach any agreements during their first face-to-face meeting.
Production operations at Armenia’s largest mining enterprise remained disrupted for a fourth consecutive day on Monday due to a walkout by hundreds of its employees demanding a 50 percent pay increase and better working conditions.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian insisted on Friday that he did not deny or question the 1915 Armenian genocide in Ottoman Turkey, responding to a wave of condemnation of his comments on the subject made late last week.
Senior law-enforcement and military officials spent more than four hours on Thursday answering questions from relatives of Armenian soldiers who went missing during the 2020 war in Nagorno-Karabakh.
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.
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