A local human rights group is making last-ditch attempts to stop Armenian authorities from extraditing to Belarus a man who was arrested right after entering Armenia from neighboring Georgia in March.
Armenia has no plans yet to remove Russian borders from its borders with Turkey and Iran after their impending withdrawal from the sole Armenian-Iranian border crossing, a senior official in Yerevan said on Thursday.
A pro-government lawmaker who reportedly engineered last week’s resignation of Justice Minister Grigor Minasian has failed to convince Armenia’s ruling Civil Contract party to designate her as his replacement.
Azerbaijan’s top military general has accused European Union monitors deployed along Armenia’s border with his country of heightening tensions in the region and hampering efforts to end the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict.
Protesters led by Archbishop Bagrat Galstanian picketed the headquarters of Armenian prosecutors on Wednesday to demand criminal charges against Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian as part of their renewed campaign for his removal from power.
The impending withdrawal of Russian border guards from Armenia’s sole border crossing with Iran will boost its sovereignty, a senior Armenian lawmaker said on Wednesday.
Armenia and Azerbaijan could open their border to trade and travel “only with Russia’s participation,” Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexei Overchuk said in televised remarks aired late on Tuesday.
Russian border guards will leave Armenia’s sole border crossing with Iran by January 1 while remaining deployed along the border between the two countries, the Armenian government announced on Tuesday.
Azerbaijan has downplayed the legal significance of a 1991 declaration championed by Armenia in peace talks, leading Yerevan to suggest that it may lay claim to Armenian territory.
Russian President Vladimir Putin held separate talks with the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan in Moscow on Tuesday after apparently failing to organize a trilateral meeting with them.
Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan on Monday refused to sign up to statements by his Russian and other ex-Soviet counterparts implicitly denouncing Western sanctions against Russia and calling for a “multipolar” international security architecture.
An aide to Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed on Monday that the European Union is planning to triple the number of its monitors deployed along Armenia’s border with Azerbaijan on a mission strongly opposed by Russia.
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