A U.S. special envoy for Armenian-Azerbaijani negotiations will visit Yerevan and Baku again this week amid the worsening humanitarian crisis in Nagorno-Karabakh which seems to be prompting growing concern in Washington.
Former Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian has again denounced Nikol Pashinian’s policy on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, saying that the Armenian prime minister has no legal or moral right to agree to Azerbaijani control over Karabakh.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian expressed hope on Thursday that he and Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev will move closer to a peace treaty between their countries at their next meeting slated for Saturday.
The Armenian opposition accused Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian of dealing another blow to pluralism and democracy on Tuesday after his party ousted the last remaining opposition head of a standing parliament committee.
Nagorno-Karabakh will continue to reject Azerbaijan’s demands to disband its armed forces, a senior Karabakh official said on Thursday.
The Armenian police have arrested a young man who allegedly called Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian a “traitor” after approaching him in a public park in Yerevan.
Nagorno-Karabakh’s president said on Thursday that the Armenian-populated region will continue to assert its right to self-determination despite mounting pressure from Azerbaijan.
Armenia and Azerbaijan continue to disagree on practical modalities of delimiting their border and organizing a dialogue between Baku and Nagorno-Karabakh’s leadership, the Armenian Foreign Ministry said on Friday.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian on Thursday effectively dismissed Nagorno-Karabakh leaders’ call to halt Armenian-Azerbaijani peace talks made after four Karabakh soldiers were killed by Azerbaijani forces early on Wednesday.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian on Tuesday sought to justify his failure to avert the 2020 war in Nagorno-Karabakh, saying that it might not have broken out had he made disproportionate concessions to Azerbaijan.
Armenian-Azerbaijani peace talks will lead nowhere if Baku persists in rejecting an “international mechanism” for dialogue with Nagorno-Karabakh’s leadership, Armenian parliament speaker Alen Simonian said on Monday.
A former political activist has accused the head of Armenia’s Investigative Committee, Argishti Kyaramian, of torturing and threatening to kill him following his arrest last week.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian on Tuesday again defended his handling of the 2020 war in Nagorno-Karabakh, effectively shifting blame for its outcome onto Armenia’s top military brass.
Russia is planning to open a consulate in Armenia’s southeastern Syunik province bordering Iran and Azerbaijan, a senior Armenian official confirmed on Monday.
Russia’s Deputy Prime Minister Alexei Overchuk has shed light on remaining differences between Armenia and Azerbaijan that hamper the opening of their border to commercial traffic.
Two workers building a new metallurgical plant in an Armenian border village were seriously wounded on Wednesday in what the Armenian military described as cross-border fire from nearby Azerbaijani army positions.
The Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun) said on Tuesday that it will join forces with other opposition groups to stage protests against Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s plans to sign a peace deal upholding Azerbaijani sovereignty over Nagorno-Karabakh.
Despite major progress reported during their most recent talks, senior Armenian and Azerbaijani officials made over the weekend conflicting statements on the practical modalities of planned transport links between their countries.
The Armenian and Azerbaijani foreign ministers will meet again in Washington next week for further U.S.-mediated talks on a peace treaty between their nations.
Armenia and Azerbaijan have still not reached an agreement on the key parameters of delimiting and demarcating their long border, Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan said on Monday.
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