The foreign ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan signaled no further progress towards a peace deal between the two nations after holding fresh talks in Istanbul on Friday.
Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan called for the implementation of Turkish-Armenian interim agreements to normalize bilateral relations when he met with his Turkish counterpart Hakan Fidan in Istanbul on Friday.
Russia, Turkey and Iran have offered to help Armenia and Azerbaijan finalize a bilateral peace agreement, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Friday after a meeting of the top diplomats of the five states.
Senior members of Armenia’s ruling Civil Contract party have nominated four new candidates to replace Justice Minister Grigor Minasian who resigned on October 1 under pressure from pro-government lawmakers.
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.
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