The Armenian authorities have increased to almost 340 the number of security cameras installed inside the parliament building in Yerevan, stoking opposition lawmakers’ concerns about government surveillance of their work.
Opposition leaders and other critics of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian claim that he is seeking to enact a new constitution for Armenia at the behest of Azerbaijan.
The Armenian Defense Ministry signaled on Monday significant progress in the implementation of multimillion-dollar defense contracts signed by Armenia and Russia after the 2020 war in Nagorno-Karabakh.
Vartan Oskanian, a former Armenian foreign minister, has announced that he will lead a political committee set by Nagorno-Karabakh’s main political factions exiled in Armenia to campaign for the “collective repatriation” of the region’s displaced population.
An Armenian opposition leader brushed aside on Wednesday Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s calls for an arms control treaty between Armenia and Azerbaijan, saying that Baku will not even discuss the idea.
The deputy chairman of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s Civil Contract party said on Tuesday that he is less optimistic about a peace treaty between Armenia and Azerbaijan after statements from Baku made in recent weeks.
Armenia signaled on Friday its continuing rejection of Azerbaijan’s demands for an extraterritorial corridor to the Nakhichevan exclave that would pass through a strategic Armenian region bordering Iran.
Armenia continues to believe that its peace treaty with Azerbaijan should spell out a mechanism for delimiting the border between the two countries, a senior Armenian lawmaker said on Thursday, reacting to Baku’s efforts to delink the two issues.
Two Armenian soldiers were found shot dead on Tuesday in separate noncombat incidents that sparked more calls for Defense Minister Suren Papikian’s resignation.
Breaking with a decades-long tradition, Armenia’s state television did not broadcast a New Year’s Eve address by Catholicos Garegin II, the supreme head of the Armenian Apostolic Church increasingly at loggerheads with Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian.
Former President Serzh Sarkisian on Thursday brushed aside Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s latest statement blaming Armenia’s former leaders and foreign powers for the fall of Nagorno-Karabakh.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian spoke with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev on Tuesday during a summit of the leaders of ex-Soviet states in Saint Petersburg, an Armenian government spokeswoman said.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian flew to Saint Petersburg on Monday to meet with the leaders of Russia and other ex-Soviet states after boycotting their previous summits amid Yerevan’s rising tensions with Moscow.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian has rejected Russian President Vladimir Putin’s latest statement blaming him for Azerbaijan’s September military offensive in Nagorno-Karabakh and the resulting exodus of the region’s ethnic Armenian population.
Law-enforcement authorities have not prosecuted any of the officials blamed by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian for Azerbaijan’s seizure last spring of agricultural lands belonging to an Armenian border village.
Armenia will skip a session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) on Tuesday one month after Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian boycotted a summit of the leaders of ex-Soviet states making up the Russian-led military alliance.
Azerbaijan has rejected Armenia’s renewed calls for a mutual withdrawal of the two countries’ troops from their long and volatile border.
Nagorno-Karabakh’s exiled political leadership has balked at attempts to “finally close the Artsakh issue” while signaling its desire to discuss them with the Armenian government.
Armenia and Azerbaijan have not yet agreed on a new date for fresh talks between their foreign ministers in Washington, Armenian parliament speaker Alen Simonian said on Thursday.
Pro-government lawmakers rejected on Monday an opposition-backed ballot initiative to legally ban Armenia’s leadership from recognizing Nagorno-Karabakh as part of Azerbaijan.
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