Turkish and Armenian officials met last month to explore the possibility of restoring a rail link between their countries as part of attempts to normalize bilateral relations, Armenia’s deputy parliament speaker Ruben Rubinian said on Tuesday.
A lawmaker facing strong government pressure to resign from the Armenian parliament has demanded a criminal investigation into the disclosure of his personal communication which is stored in his mobile phone controversially confiscated by a law-enforcement agency.
Andranik Piloyan, a former Armenia minister of emergencies, was sentenced to five years in prison at the end of his corruption trial on Tuesday.
A man who was hospitalized last week after being interrogated at an Armenian police station insisted on Monday that he was beaten up to confess to a crime he did not commit.
The Armenian government has no plans yet to withdraw international lawsuits filed against Azerbaijan since the 2020 war in Nagorno-Karabakh, a senior official in Yerevan said on Monday.
Armenia evacuated its embassy from Damascus as Islamist-led rebels entered the Syrian capital and overthrew the country’s longtime President Bashar al-Assad at the weekend.
A group of Armenian lawyers have demanded a corruption investigation into Finance Minister Vahe Hovannisian, pointing to his personal business deals, notably an interest-free $1 million loan received by him.
A senior representative of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s party on Friday pointedly declined to say whether Armenia is discussing Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev’s further demands in ongoing negotiations on an Armenian-Azerbaijani peace treaty.
Hovik Aghazarian, a lawmaker ousted from Armenia’s ruling Civil Contract party, has claimed that “powerful” individuals are threatening to publicize intimate details of his private life if he keeps refusing to resign from the parliament.
U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin discussed with Armenian Defense Minister Suren Papikian what he described as “strategic partnership” between their countries during talks held in Washington late on Thursday.
A lawmaker ousted from the ruling Civil Contract party made clear on Thursday that he will not resign from Armenia’s parliament despite Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s implicit pledge to have him prosecuted.
Azerbaijan has reportedly turned down U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s proposal to organize more peace talks between his Armenian and Azerbaijani counterparts.
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