Armenian pro-government and opposition politicians and a representative of Nagorno-Karabakh’s exiled leadership on Thursday shrugged off Russia’s claim that the Karabakh Armenians can safely return to their homeland recaptured by Azerbaijan one year ago.
General C.Q. Brown, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, praised growing U.S.-Armenian military ties and called for countering Russia’s “malign influence in the region” when he met with Armenia’s top general in Washington late on Wednesday.
Law-enforcement authorities have issued an arrest warrant for Gyumri’s former Mayor Samvel Balasanian nearly one year after the ruling Civil Contract party pulled out of a power-sharing deal with his political team that continues to run Armenia’s second largest city.
Armenian opposition leaders gathered in the parliament on Thursday to again condemn Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s administration for “denigrating” a 1990 declaration of Armenia’s independence which Azerbaijan says is the main obstacle to peace between the two nations.
The ruling Civil Contract party’s parliamentary group on Wednesday signaled no plans to demand the resignation of the controversial head of Armenia’s Investigative Committee, Argishti Kyaramian, after he publicly traded insults with one of its members.
Azerbaijan is rejecting Armenian proposals to sign a bilateral peace deal in possible preparation for a new military aggression against Armenia, a deputy chairman of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s party said on Wednesday.
Video of police officers beating up an Armenian opposition parliamentarian during recent antigovernment protests in Yerevan is not sufficient grounds for prosecuting them, according to Prosecutor-General Anna Vardapetian.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian has proposed that Armenia and Azerbaijan hold fresh talks to bridge their remaining differences and sign a peace deal ahead of next month's COP29 summit in Baku, a senior Armenian official said on Tuesday.
The head of Armenia's Investigative Committee, Argishti Kyaramian, bitterly argued with two pro-government lawmakers and nearly came to blows with one of them during a parliamentary hearing in Yerevan on Tuesday.
The Armenian police have done a good job in the last five years despite a significant increase in various crimes committed in the country, Interior Minister Vahe Ghazarian insisted on Tuesday.
Turkish parliament speaker Numan Kurtulmus has reiterated Ankara’s calls for a land corridor that would connect Azerbaijan to its Nakhichevan exclave as well as Turkey through Armenia.
Azerbaijan’s parliament speaker Sahiba Gafarova reportedly cancelled at the last minute a meeting with her Armenian counterpart Alen Simonian which was due to take place in Geneva on Monday.
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