Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian on Wednesday held more meetings with concerned residents of two villages in Armenia’s northeastern Tavush province adjacent to border areas which he seems intent on handing over to Azerbaijan.
Iran says it has received assurances from Armenia regarding its concerns about the potential escalation of geopolitical competition in the South Caucasus stemming from the Armenian leader’s recent high-level discussions with officials from the United States and the European Union in Brussels.
A close ally of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian has denied that his recent controversial remarks on the need to verify the number of the 1915 Armenian genocide victims by drawing up their complete list reflect any political decision of the establishment in this regard.
In remarks denounced by critics as advancement of a Turkish narrative a close ally of Prime Minister Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian has pronounced in favor of essentially “verifying” the number of victims of the 1915 Armenian genocide in Ottoman Turkey that is widely believed to be 1.5 million.
Armenia has replied to the latest edition of proposals from the Azerbaijani side regarding the draft peace treaty, an Armenian Foreign Ministry spokesperson said on Monday.
A senior pro-government lawmaker in Yerevan has stopped short of linking the shootings reported along the Armenian-Azerbaijani border in recent days to Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s meeting with top EU and U.S. officials in Brussels on April 5.
The United States and the European Union are not pressuring Armenia to leave Russian-led alliances of ex-Soviet states during Yerevan’s ongoing rapprochement with the Western powers, a senior Armenian official insisted on Thursday.
Armenia and Azerbaijan accused each other of violating the ceasefire along their border on Monday night as tensions between them rose ahead of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s trilateral meeting with top U.S. and European Union officials.
Nagorno-Karabakh political figures condemned on Friday Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s threats to crack down on Karabakh’s Yerevan-based leadership which is continuing to present itself as a government in exile.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian lambasted Nagorno-Karabakh’s Yerevan-based leaders for continuing to present themselves as a government in exile and threatened to crack down on them on Thursday.
Armenian investigators reportedly raided the homes of supporters of a radical opposition group on Monday one day after three men linked to it detonated a hand grenade at the entrance to a police station in Yerevan.
Armenia must cede more territory to Azerbaijan to avoid another attack by its neighbor, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian told residents of Armenian border villages that would be gravely affected by that unilateral concession.
Law-enforcement authorities have arrested four men accused of attempting politically motivated bomb attacks against members and supporters of Armenia’s ruling Civil Contract party.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian has traded bitter accusations with his former defense minister, Arshak Karapetian, who has accused him of high treason and pledged to topple him.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian signaled on Tuesday his readiness to accept Azerbaijan’s demands for Armenia to withdraw from four border villages.
Armenia’s leadership has not made a final decision on whether to try to enact this year a new constitution sought by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian, one of his top political allies said on Tuesday.
Armenia has no choice but to accept Azerbaijan’s terms of a peace deal, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said on Monday ahead of fresh talks between the two nations.
Just days after his latest talks with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian has accused Azerbaijan of planning military aggression against Armenia.
Russian troops are not deployed in or around a border village where four Armenian soldiers were killed last week, a pro-government lawmaker said on Thursday, contradicting a senior Armenian official’s claim about Russia’s responsibility for the Azerbaijani ceasefire violation.
A member of Nagorno-Karabakh’s exiled leadership said on Tuesday that it is taking “concrete steps” for the eventual repatriation of the region’s ethnic Armenian population displaced by last September’s Azerbaijani military offensive.
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