Arshak Karapetian, a former Armenian defense minister and national security aide to Nikol Pashinian, has blamed him for the fall of Nagorno-Karabakh and pledged to fight for his removal from power.
The outgoing authorities in Stepanakert are trying to convince Azerbaijan to let Nagorno-Karabakh’s current and former leaders leave the region along with its tens of thousands of ordinary residents, a Karabakh official said on Friday.
Azerbaijan allowed Armenian doctors on Tuesday to visit Nagorno-Karabakh to treat and evacuate scores of people injured in Monday’s powerful explosion at a fuel depot outside Stepanakert.
Thousands of ethnic Armenian residents of Nagorno-Karabakh fled to Armenia overnight and on Monday one week after an Azerbaijani military offensive that will lead to the restoration of Baku’s full control over the region.
The Azerbaijani government has cited a statement by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian to reject Armenian and Western criticism of its military offensive in Nagorno-Karabakh that displaced a large part of the region’s population.
Heavy explosions were reported from Stepanakert and other parts of Nagorno-Karabakh on Tuesday as Azerbaijan announced a large-scale military operation against the Armenian-populated region.
Armenia and Azerbaijan continue to disagree on key terms of a bilateral peace treaty discussed by them, according to official Yerevan.
The U.S. and Armenian militaries began on Monday a joint military exercise in Armenia strongly criticized by Russia, the South Caucasus nation’s longtime ally.
An Armenian journalist working for the Russian news agency Sputnik and a pro-Russian blogger are among seven persons arrested in Armenia on suspicion of illegal arms possession and trafficking.
Russia continued to criticize on Thursday Armenia’s decision to host a joint U.S.-Armenian military exercise later this month.
Azerbaijani troops have reportedly opened fire at the civilian airport of Kapan for the third time since the recent start of commercial flights between the Armenian border town and Yerevan.
Nagorno-Karabakh’s leadership on Tuesday dismissed an Azerbaijani proposal to provide the Armenian-populated region with food that has been in short supply due to Baku’s eight-month blockade of the Lachin corridor.
Three residents of Nagorno-Karabakh were detained by Azerbaijani security forces on Monday while traveling to Armenia through the Lachin corridor.
An Armenian airline began regular commercial flights to Kapan on Monday after what Armenian officials described as cross-border gunfire from Azerbaijan targeting the border town’s airport.
Citing an unnamed state official, Russia’s leading daily, Kommersant, wrote on Friday that Moscow had proposed ending the current situation with the blocked access to Nagorno-Karabakh by opening both the Agdam and Lachin roads.
Former Armenian Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian has called on Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian to withdraw from the statement made in Prague last year, by which Baku and Yerevan recognized each other’s territorial integrity and sovereignty based on the declaration signed in Almaty in 1991.
A group of Armenian war veterans threatening to “take matters into their own hands” unless authorities make efforts to swiftly end the Azerbaijani blockade of Nagorno-Karabakh have claimed more obstruction from police after arriving in the south of Armenia.
An opposition figure representing a nationalist party with links across the far-flung Armenian diaspora has been elected parliament speaker in Nagorno-Karabakh, fueling speculation about a possible shift in local politics largely influenced by Azerbaijan’s blockade of the region in recent weeks.
The Russian peacekeeping force deployed in Nagorno-Karabakh has declined to provide security to participants in a local protest planning a trip to an Azerbaijani checkpoint at the Lachin corridor to try to break what authorities in Stepanakert view as an illegal blockade of the region.
Nagorno-Karabakh’s population is increasingly suffering from malnutrition and facing the imminent threat of starvation because of Azerbaijan’s blockade of the Lachin corridor, an official in Stepanakert said on Wednesday.
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