The foreign ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan have not yet agreed to meet later this week on the sidelines of a NATO summit in Washington, official Yerevan said on Monday.
Sparking fresh controversy, speaker Alen Simonian has given Armenian parliament members and staffers additional hefty bonuses worth their monthly salaries.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian called at the weekend for continued deepening of Armenian-Iranian relations when he congratulated moderate reformist Masoud Pezeshkian on winning Iran’s presidential election.
Amid its deepening rift with longtime ally Russia, Armenia announced on Saturday that it will host another joint military exercise with the United States this month.
Iran’s ambassador in Yerevan on Friday dismissed the latest U.S. efforts to get Armenia and Azerbaijan to negotiate a peace accord.
A group of U.S. lawmakers voiced support for Armenia’s territorial integrity and praised the Armenian government for implementing “democratic reforms” and seeking closer ties with the West as they ended a four-day visit to the country on Friday.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian again called for the adoption of a new Armenian constitution on Friday amid Azerbaijan’s continuing demands for a constitutional change in Armenia.
Armenia’s ambassador to Russia has visited two Russian cities reportedly shelled by Ukraine after Moscow condemned other Armenian officials for making pro-Ukrainian statements during a recent trip to a town near Kyiv.
The mayor of Yerevan’s northern Arabkir district was moved to house arrest on Thursday one day after being detained along with his two deputies and several other people on corruption charges.
The government approved on Thursday 1 billion drams ($2.6 million) in financial aid to residents of Armenia’s northern regions who lost loved ones or properties or suffered other material damage in recent floods.
Hungary has dropped its veto on the European Union’s first-ever military assistance to Armenia, EU diplomatic sources told RFE/RL’s Armenian Service on Thursday.
Armenia is discussing with the United States the possibility of building a new, U.S.-designed nuclear plant that would replace its aging facility at Metsamor, a senior Armenian official said on Wednesday.
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