Yerevan is satisfied with the recent negotiations between Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev that yielded some “tangible results” and marked progress in the peace process between the two South Caucasus nations, an ally of the Armenian leader has revealed.
Armenia’s judicial oversight body appears to have ignored a Constitutional Court ruling ordering it to reconsider the controversial sacking last year of a well-known judge who accused authorities of suppressing judicial independence.
Archbishop Bagrat Galstanian on Friday pledged to continue campaigning for regime change in Armenia but declined to shed light on further actions of his opposition-backed protest movement.
Armenian law-enforcement authorities have dropped criminal charges against one of the three exiled Nagorno-Karabakh mayors prosecuted by them after signaling support for antigovernment protests in Yerevan.
The presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan have validated a framework agreement on the delimitation of the long border between the two countries.
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.
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