The ruling Civil Contract party is starting preparations for a fresh municipal election in Gyumri following a government crackdown on a local businessman whose bloc runs Armenia’s second largest city.
Armenia remains committed to deepening its relations with neighboring Iran, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian told Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian during talks held in Russia on Thursday.
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev met on Thursday on the sidelines of a summit of the BRICS group of major emerging economies held in the Russian city of Kazan.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on Thursday blamed the current U.S. administration for last year’s forced exodus of Nagorno-Karabakh’s ethnic Armenian population and pledged to end the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict if he wins the upcoming U.S. presidential election.
Armenia is not interested in having Russia, Iran and Turkey mediate its further peace talks with Azerbaijan, Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan said on Wednesday, dismissing a relevant offer from his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov.
After an arrest warrant issued for their unofficial leader, Gyumri Mayor Vardges Samsonian and other members of a political bloc running Armenia’s second largest city are expected to resign from the local council, raising the prospect of a snap election there.
Armenia’s ruling Civil Contract party appears to have widened the pool of candidates to replace Justice Minister Grigor Minasian after failing to nominate any of its members for the vacant post.
The Armenian government has granted asylum to a Belarusian citizen who has faced extradition to his home country since being arrested in Armenia in March.
The United States is ready to take “bold initiatives” to help Armenia and Azerbaijan reach a peace deal, President Joe Biden said in a letter to Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian publicized on Tuesday.
Opposition lawmakers walked out of the Armenian parliament on Tuesday as it swiftly debated a border delimitation agreement with Azerbaijan which they say could be a prelude to further territorial concessions to Baku.
Parliament speaker Alen Simonian faced strong opposition criticism on Tuesday after implying that Azerbaijan had a legitimate right to recapture Nagorno-Karabakh by force.
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.
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