Samvel Karapetian, a jailed billionaire emerging as a major opposition figure, on Friday kept challenging Armenian authorities to allow the national electric utility seized from him this summer to reduce electricity prices in the country.
Armenia’s next general elections will almost certainly take place as planned in June next year, the chief of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s staff insisted on Wednesday.
The United States and Armenia are engaged in detailed talks on practical modalities of a U.S.-administered transit corridor for Azerbaijan which would pass through a key Armenian region, Deputy Prime Minister Mher Grigorians said on Monday.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian indicated on Thursday that he will stop paying attention to Azerbaijan’s continuing description of a transit route, which would connect it to its Nakhichevan exclave through Armenia, as an extraterritorial “Zangezur corridor.”
The Armenian opposition condemned law-enforcement authorities for arresting 13 more clerics on Wednesday, saying that Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian has openly declared war on the Armenian Apostolic Church.
The United States and Armenia have yet to work out practical modalities of a U.S.-administered transit corridor that would connect Azerbaijan to its Nakhichevan exclave through a strategic Armenian region, Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan said on Tuesday.
Speaker Alen Simonian has formally classified the findings of a parliamentary inquiry into the 2020 war in Nagorno-Karabakh after unexpectedly blocking their discussion on the parliament floor.
A senior pro-government lawmaker continued to demand on Thursday that speaker Alen Simonian allow him to present the Armenian parliament with the findings of a parliamentary inquiry into the 2020 war in Nagorno-Karabakh.
Parliament speaker Alen Simonian has unexpectedly blocked another senior pro-government lawmaker from releasing this week the findings of a parliamentary inquiry into the 2020 war in Nagorno-Karabakh.
Armenia is facing a shortage of military personnel, Deputy Defense Minister Arman Sargsian said on Tuesday less than a month after his ministry drafted legislation which could downsize the country’s army.
Armenian law-enforcement authorities claimed to have solved the killing of the opposition head of a major rural community just west of Yerevan after arresting two suspects over the weekend.
Opposition lawmakers condemned on Friday the Armenian government’s plans to cut its defense expenditures by more than 15 percent next year, saying that they represent yet another unilateral concession to Azerbaijan.
The Armenian government indicated at the weekend that it will not intervene to try to help Armenia’s leading food exporting company recover its heavy trucks intercepted in Russia nearly three weeks ago.
The head of Armenia’s National Security Service (NSS), Andranik Simonian, travelled to Baku on Friday to attend an international conference organized by the Azerbaijani government.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian on Thursday again declined to shed light on a U.S.-administered transit corridor through Armenia which he pledged to open for Azerbaijan during last month’s summit in Washington.
The Armenian armed forces must be the least important tool for ensuring the country’s security, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian declared on Monday, sparking more opposition accusations of “defeatism.”
Turkey promised to speed up a delayed partial opening of its border with Armenia during talks between senior representatives of the two neighboring states held in Yerevan on Friday.
Parliament speaker Alen Simonian on Thursday sought to rationalize Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev’s demands for would-be traffic between Azerbaijan and its Nakhichevan exclave through Armenia to be exempt from Armenian border checks.
Armenia’s government has moved to shorten compulsory military service in the country, prompting opposition claims that it is bowing to Azerbaijan’s demands to downsize the Armenian army.
Senior Turkish and Armenian officials will meet in Armenia in the coming days for fresh talks on the normalization of relations between their countries.
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