A senior member of the main opposition Hayastan alliance on Monday accused Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian of bowing to yet another demand by Azerbaijan when he reacted to the Armenian government’s stated readiness to help dissolve the OSCE Minsk Group.
International lawsuits filed by Armenia against Azerbaijan do not preclude peace between the two countries, a senior Armenian official insisted on Friday one day after Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian offered to withdraw them.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian pledged to stick to his “peace agenda” on Wednesday after Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev branded Armenia a “fascist state,” threatened to forcibly open a land corridor through Armenian territory and repeated his preconditions for a peace deal with Yerevan.
A retired top general critical of the Armenian government was arrested at the weekend on charges stemming from the 2020 war with Azerbaijan during which he received Armenia’s highest state award from Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian.
Less than one month after being expelled from Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s Civil Contract party, two members of Armenia’s parliament have decided to set up their own political party.
Archbishop Bagrat Galstian, who led massive anti-government protests in May and June, on Friday apologized to supporters for failing to topple Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian and pledged to continue to campaign for regime change.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian exchanged barbs with Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko on Thursday as he participated in a Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) summit in Russia via video link from Yerevan.
Citing his positive coronavirus test results, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian did not fly to Saint Petersburg on Wednesday to attend meetings of the leaders of Russia and other former Soviet republics.
Armenia’s three former presidents on Monday again accused Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian of lying to try to absolve himself of blame for the fall of Nagorno-Karabakh following his renewed claims about past peace proposals made by the United States, Russia and France.
A member of Armenia’s parliament ousted from the ruling Civil Contract party on Tuesday dismissed as politically motivated criminal proceedings launched against him after his refusal to resign from the National Assembly.
The Azerbaijani government demanded on Thursday the withdrawal of European Union monitors deployed along Armenia’s border with Azerbaijan with the aim of preventing or minimizing ceasefire violations there.
Turkish and Armenian officials met last month to explore the possibility of restoring a rail link between their countries as part of attempts to normalize bilateral relations, Armenia’s deputy parliament speaker Ruben Rubinian said on Tuesday.
The Armenian government has no plans yet to withdraw international lawsuits filed against Azerbaijan since the 2020 war in Nagorno-Karabakh, a senior official in Yerevan said on Monday.
Hovik Aghazarian, a lawmaker ousted from Armenia’s ruling Civil Contract party, has claimed that “powerful” individuals are threatening to publicize intimate details of his private life if he keeps refusing to resign from the parliament.
A lawmaker ousted from the ruling Civil Contract party made clear on Thursday that he will not resign from Armenia’s parliament despite Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s implicit pledge to have him prosecuted.
Four opposition lawmakers have taken the Armenian government to court, challenging its decision to deny them confidential access to the text of a draft peace deal discussed by Armenia and Azerbaijan.
Amid its lingering tensions with Moscow, Armenia has reportedly declined to host an upcoming summit of the leaders of Russia and other ex-Soviet states making up the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU).
A pro-government lawmaker who has fallen out of favor with Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian said on Tuesday that he has postponed his decision on whether to resign from the Armenian parliament.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian has drawn strong condemnation from historians, opposition leaders and other critics after saying that Armenians should stop describing as “Western Armenia” parts of moder-day eastern Turkey populated by their ancestors until the 1915 genocide.
Six months after being tasked by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian with drafting a new constitution of Armenia, an hoc government panel has still not met to discuss the matter, a senior official said on Friday.
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