Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev appears to have set further conditions for ending his country’s conflict with Armenia amid Yerevan’s continuing offers to swiftly sign a bilateral peace deal.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian praised France for supporting Armenia on the international stage when he met with French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris on Thursday ahead of a summit of the International Organization of La Francophonie (OIF).
Archbishop Bagrat Galstanian managed to appeal on state television to Armenians on Wednesday night after resuming his rallies in Yerevan aimed at toppling Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian.
Parliament speaker Alen Simonian has again found himself in hot water after publicly insulting a Nagorno-Karabakh activist who berated him and other top state officials during an official ceremony late last week.
Azerbaijan lacks the “political will” to sign a peace deal with Armenia and may be planning further military action against it, Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan said on Wednesday one week after holding more talks with his Azerbaijani counterpart.
Armenia’s ruling Civil Contract party on Wednesday thwarted an opposition attempt to launch a parliamentary inquiry into socioeconomic problems facing refugees from Nagorno-Karabakh and government programs meant to address them.
Armenia’s government did not move to evacuate Armenian nationals or urge them to leave Lebanon right after the start of Israel’s ground offensive against Hezbollah on Tuesday.
In what critics see as a ruling ordered by the government, the Constitutional Court has played down the legal significance of a preamble to Armenia’s constitution which Azerbaijan says is the main obstacle to peace between the two nations.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian continued a war of words with Russia over Armenian-Azerbaijani transport links as he hosted a meeting of the heads of government of the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) member states in Yerevan on Tuesday.
Justice Minister Grigor Minasian tendered his resignation on Tuesday, bowing to demands from many lawmakers representing Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s Civil Contract party.
Senior Armenian and Iranian officials reaffirmed their governments’ pledges to significantly increase trade between the two neighboring countries when they inaugurated a large Iranian shopping center just outside Yerevan on Monday.
Armenia and Azerbaijan did not move closer to a partial peace deal sought by Yerevan as a result of their fresh talks hosted by U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, a senior Armenian lawmaker said on Monday.
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