Further economic aid pledged by the United States and the European Union will be nowhere near enough to ease Armenia’s economic dependence on Russia, an Armenian opposition parliamentarian insisted on Friday.
The main opposition Hayastan alliance demanded on Tuesday that the Armenian parliament debate Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s controversial plans to hand over disputed border areas to Azerbaijan.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian questioned at the weekend Azerbaijan’s stated respect for Armenia’s territorial integrity while reaffirming his readiness to unilaterally hand over some of the contested border areas to Baku.
Russian troops and border guards stationed in Armenia are “the only real guarantee” of the country’s sovereignty, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Friday.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian welcomed on Thursday a European Parliament resolution construed by him as an endorsement of his administration’s possible decision to seek Armenia’s membership in the European Union.
Armenia will leave the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) if its lingering security concerns are not addressed by the Russian-led military alliance, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian warned on Tuesday.
Just days after the latest round of talks on delimiting the Armenian-Azerbaijani borer, Azerbaijan demanded at the weekend that Armenia immediately and unconditionally withdraw from four border villages.
Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan indicated on Thursday that he and his Azerbaijani counterpart Jeyhun Bayramov did not make significant progress towards an Armenian-Azerbaijani peace treaty during two-day talks held in Berlin last week.
Armenian prosecutors have refused to launch a formal criminal investigation into a recent report that questioned the legality of lavish campaign donations received by the ruling Civil Contract party ahead of last September’s municipal elections in Yerevan.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian signaled on Wednesday his readiness to pull Armenia out of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), saying that the Russian-led military alliance is becoming a security threat to his country.
Parliament speaker Alen Simonian on Tuesday criticized Russian border guards and military personnel deployed in Armenia, saying that they do not protect his country against Azerbaijani attacks.
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy is planning to visit Armenia next week amid the South Caucasus country’s mounting tensions with Russia, a diplomatic source told RFE/RL’s Armenian Service.
Armenia and Azerbaijan are discussing the date and venue of an upcoming meeting of their foreign ministers, the Armenian Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday.
A senior Armenian lawmaker on Friday hit back at a top Russian diplomat who warned that Armenia will risk losing its independence if it keeps moving away from Russia and the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO).
Nagorno-Karabakh’s human rights ombudsman dismissed on Thursday Russia’s offers to help Karabakh Armenians displaced by last September’s Azerbaijani military offensive return to their homeland.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian has said that his Civil Contract party operates transparently in response to a report accusing it of receiving campaign donations of “dubious origin” ahead of last September’s municipal elections in Yerevan.
Lawmakers representing Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s Civil Contract party have decided to ask authorities to release the founder and two current and former employees of a major Armenian software company arrested last week on corruption charges.
Armenia is ready to sign a nonaggression pact with Azerbaijan and give other “guarantees” to Baku, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian said on Sunday.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian and his Georgian counterpart Irakli Gharibashvili signed a joint declaration calling for “strategic partnership” between their countries as they held talks in Tbilisi on Friday.
Senior Armenian officials have acknowledged that Azerbaijan has objected to Armenia’s 1990 declaration of independence which Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian seems intent on removing from the national constitution.
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