Soviet military maps drawn in the 1970s should not be the only blueprint for delineating Armenia’s border with Azerbaijan, Deputy Prime Minister Mher Grigorian said on Monday, indicating a change in the Armenian government’s position.
U.S. President Joe Biden has urged Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev to conclude a peace agreement with Armenia before the end of this year.
Armenia’s Anti-Corruption Committee (ACC) has dismissed allegations that the head of another law-enforcement agency, Argishti Kyaramian, personally tortured four criminal suspects last year.
Armenia and Azerbaijan may have common enemies that do not want the two countries to resolve their long-running conflict, parliament speaker Alen Simonian said over the weekend.
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.
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