One day after ruling out major concessions, Yerevan Mayor Tigran Avinian on Tuesday pledged to scale back the impending significant increase in the cost of public transport in the Armenian capital.
Political allies of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian have insisted that he did not deny or question the 1915 Armenian genocide in Ottoman Turkey in remarks that sparked an uproar from Armenian historians, opposition figures and retired diplomats.
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev continued to demand on Tuesday that Armenia open a land corridor that would connect Azerbaijan to its Nakhichevan exclave.
There are no signs of a buildup of Azerbaijani forces near the border with Armenia, the chief of the Armenian army’s General Staff said on Tuesday amid lingering fears of another Azerbaijani attack.
Deputy Foreign Minister Vahan Kostanian expressed Armenia’s readiness to forge ties with Syria’s new leadership when he visited Damascus on Monday.
Risking another diplomatic spat with Yerevan, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has blamed Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian for the fall of Nagorno-Karabakh and accused him of “destroying” Armenia with his bid to join the European Union.
Armenia’s state human rights defender, Anahit Manasian, has effectively threatened to have an opposition lawmaker prosecuted after he accused her of doing nothing to improve prison conditions in the country.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian has provoked a storm of criticism from his political opponents and historians after questioning the 1915 Armenian genocide in Ottoman Turkey and the decades-long Armenian campaign for its international recognition.
A standing committee of the Armenian parliament on Friday endorsed a government-backed bill calling for the “start of a process of Armenia's accession to the European Union,” paving the way for its adoption by the National Assembly.
A U.S. human rights lawyer representing Ruben Vardanyan has said that the Armenian government is doing little to try to secure the release of his client and seven other former leaders of Nagorno-Karabakh standing trial in Azerbaijan.
Further security assistance to Armenia promised by the United States could contribute to the withdrawal of Russian border guards from the South Caucasus country, a senior Armenian official said on Friday.
The Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict was on the agenda of newly appointed U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s phone call with Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan reported by the U.S. State Department on Thursday.
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