A member of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s political team accused Azerbaijan on Tuesday of obstructing a resolution of the conflict with Armenia following Baku’s rejection of an interim peace deal proposed by Yerevan.
An Armenian appeals court on Tuesday shortened the detention period of Armen Ashotian, an opposition leader standing trial on what he calls politically motivated charges, raising hopes for his imminent release.
A representative of the main opposition Hayastan alliance said on Monday that it remains allied to Archbishop Bagrat Galstanian, the leader of an anti-government movement sparked by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s territorial concessions to Azerbaijan.
Armenia has denied that any incidents have occurred between its border guards and those of neighboring Azerbaijan at a recently demarcated section of the frontier, particularly in the area where a new road is being built on the Armenian side.
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s latest warning against the creation of a land corridor through Armenia to Azerbaijan’s Nakhichevan exclave was addressed to not only Baku but also Yerevan, Armenian analysts said on Wednesday.
Former Foreign Minister Ara Ayvazian has claimed that he was kept in the dark about the handover to Azerbaijan of contested border areas along Armenia’s Syunik province which Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian controversially ordered in December 2020.
Armenia and Iran have flatly denied a report claiming that they secretly signed earlier this year several contracts for the delivery of $500 million worth of Iranian weapons to Yerevan.
Azerbaijan has officially invited Armenia to attend the COP29 global climate summit that will take place in Baku in November.
Armenia and Azerbaijan accused each other of refusing to hold a meeting of their leaders on the sidelines of the European Political Community summit that took place in Britain on Thursday.
The United States is pressing Armenia and Azerbaijan to make “tough compromises” to negotiate a bilateral peace accord, the U.S. State Department said late on Monday, sparking Armenian opposition claims that Washington backs further Armenian concessions demanded by Baku.
Iran believes that Nagorno-Karabakh’s ethnic Armenian population displaced by last year’s Azerbaijani offensive must be able to return to the region and live there in security, the Iranian ambassador to Armenia, Mehdi Sobhani, said on Friday.
The foreign ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan have not yet agreed to meet later this week on the sidelines of a NATO summit in Washington, official Yerevan said on Monday.
Armenia’s ambassador to Russia has visited two Russian cities reportedly shelled by Ukraine after Moscow condemned other Armenian officials for making pro-Ukrainian statements during a recent trip to a town near Kyiv.
Archbishop Bagrat Galstanian accused Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian of planning to cede more territory to Azerbaijan as he toured Armenia’s strategically important Syunik province at the weekend.
Iran will continue to oppose any change of Armenia’s internationally recognized borders regardless of the outcome of its presidential election, the Iranian ambassador in Yerevan indicated on Friday.
Under the terms of the latest French-Armenian arms deal, France will deliver 36 CAESAR self-propelled howitzers to Armenia over the next 15 months, a senior official in Yerevan confirmed on Tuesday.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian claimed over the weekend that most Armenians support his appeasement policy towards Azerbaijan because they want to enjoy their lives, rather than fight and make sacrifices.
Armenia’s leadership continues to discuss the possibility of applying for membership in the European Union, a senior lawmaker representing Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s party said on Friday.
Pro-government deputies boycotted a session of the Armenian parliament on Monday to prevent a debate on opposition demands for Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s resignation fueled by more than month-long street protests in Yerevan.
The Armenian government postponed its weekly meeting on Thursday as protesters demanding Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s resignation again rallied outside its main building at Yerevan’s Republic Square.
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