Visiting Armenia on Thursday, NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen added his voice to Western criticism of Azerbaijan’s decision to pardon the Azerbaijani army officer who had axed to death an Armenian colleague during a NATO training course in Budapest.
In what appeared to be a stern warning, President Serzh Sarkisian said on Friday that a state body overseeing Armenia’s judicial system must be fair and objective in taking disciplinary action against judges suspected of breaking the law.
The Armenian government dismissed on Wednesday critics’ renewed skepticism about its ability to meet key budgetary targets this year, saying that that tax collection in the country is proceeding according to plan.
The speaker of the Russian State Duma, Sergei Naryshkin, promoted a deeper economic and political integration of Russia and other former Soviet republics during an official visit to Armenia on Tuesday.
Irish Foreign Minister Eamon Gilmore, the current chairman-in-office of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, on Tuesday urged the parties to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict to withdraw snipers from the “line of contact” and jointly investigate ceasefire violations there.
Consumer prices in Armenia fell further this spring, putting the authorities in a stronger position to meet their inflation target for 2012, according to official statistics released on Thursday.
The European Union continues to support the current format of Armenian-Azerbaijani peace talks and strongly oppose possible attempts to end the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict by force, the EU’s special envoy to the South Caucasus said on Friday.
The three main challengers of the ruling Republican Party (HHK) accused the Armenian authorities of resorting to a “large-scale machination” and cast doubt on the legitimacy of the parliamentary elections just hours after the opening of the polls on Sunday. (UPDATED)
Azerbaijan would fail to push a pro-Azerbaijani resolution on Nagorno-Karabakh through the United Nations Security Council even after assuming its rotating presidency, Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian said on Friday.
The Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK) insisted on Tuesday that the controversial provision by a company belonging to its leader Gagik Tsarukian of tractors to rural communities across the country does not amount to vote buying.
Schoolchildren, teachers and other public-sector employees have been pressured to attend election campaign rallies held by the ruling Republican Party of Armenia (HHK), observers from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe said on Friday.
There may be little love lost between Armenia’s leading opposition forces but they are unanimous in promising massive increases in government spending on social programs in the ongoing parliamentary race.
The upcoming parliamentary elections are important for Armenia’s efforts to forge closer links with the European Union under the Eastern Partnership program, Deputy Foreign Minister Zohrab Mnatsakanian said on Friday.
Armenia has made more progress towards signing an “association agreement” with the European Union than virtually all other former Soviet republics included in the EU’s Eastern Partnership program, Lithuania’s Foreign Minister Audronius Azubalis said on Thursday.
Russia and Armenia spoke out on Monday against possible Western military action against Iran, with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov warning of “very serious” consequences for regional security during a visit to Yerevan.
A prominent American-Armenian public activist who heads the largest Armenian lobbying group in the United States has cast doubts over the assurances by the leadership in Yerevan about holding the fairest elections in the history of the former Soviet state.
Opposition leader Raffi Hovannisian has announced his withdrawal from one of the forthcoming parliamentary election races in which he would be running against another oppositionist.
The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe announced on Thursday the start of another vote monitoring mission in Armenia that will be crucial for the international legitimacy of the country’s upcoming parliamentary elections.
The status quo in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict is not sustainable and Armenia should be particularly interested in its peaceful resolution, German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle said during a visit to Yerevan on Thursday.
Prime Minister Tigran Sarkisian has spearheaded work on the electoral manifesto of the ruling Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) that will be unveiled soon, a senior HHK figure revealed on Wednesday.
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