Azerbaijan has withdrawn its military post from one section of the recently demarcated border with Armenia, according to the mayor of a local Armenian village who spoke to RFE/RL’s Armenian Service on Wednesday.
Armenia and Azerbaijan are nearly finished hammering out a peace agreement that would finally end their decades-old conflict. But in recent months one issue has emerged that is threatening to scuttle the entire process.
Gurgen Arsenian, a prominent Armenian pro-government lawmaker, has resigned from his parliamentary seat, sparking further speculation that he will be appointed Armenia’s new ambassador to Russia.
Armenia has denied that any incidents have occurred between its border guards and those of neighboring Azerbaijan at a recently demarcated section of the frontier, particularly in the area where a new road is being built on the Armenian side.
Azerbaijan has reacted angrily to comments made by a European Union diplomat who drew a distinct line between the issue of ethnic Armenians returning to Nagorno-Karabakh and the question of Azerbaijanis who left Armenia at the start of the conflict decades ago.
An outspoken priest leading Armenia’s latest protest movement vowed renewed efforts to remove Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian from power as he continued to tour Armenia’s regions this month.
Most of the draft peace treaty between Armenia and Azerbaijan has already been agreed upon and political will is required to finalize it, Toivo Klaar, the EU special representative for the South Caucasus and the crisis in Georgia, has said.
Armenia will not send its representatives to another military exercise conducted by the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), a Russia-led bloc of six former Soviet nations from which Yerevan has sought to distance itself lately.
A judicial oversight body has decided not to apply any disciplinary action sought by Armenia’s justice minister against a judge hearing two high-profile cases.
Armenia has called on its citizens to temporarily refrain from visiting Lebanon amid an increased risk of military conflict in this Middle Eastern country.
A body overseeing state-funded broadcasters has admitted objecting to Armenian Public Radio’s critical coverage of the government years before replacing its executive director, Garegin Khumarian.
A Western-funded division of the Armenian police faced fresh torture allegations on Friday after arresting a man accused of illegally parking his car in Yerevan.
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