An Armenian court decided on Tuesday to move an opposition figure close to former President Serzh Sarkisian to house arrest more than one year after he was detained on charges rejected by him as politically motivated.
Exiled leaders of Nagorno-Karabakh have pushed backed against a senior Armenian official’s claims that their government bodies have ceased to exist since Azerbaijan regained full control of the region last September.
The ruling Civil Contract party stripped three more opposition members of Yerevan’s municipal council of their seats on Tuesday ahead of a planned opposition bid to oust Mayor Tigran Avinian through a no-confidence vote.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian repeated on Tuesday his proposal to sign an interim peace deal with Azerbaijan one day after it was again rejected by Baku.
The mayor of the southeastern Armenian town of Goris, who has challenged Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian in the past, was sentenced to 20 months in prison on Tuesday for defying an earlier court ruling that barred him from holding public office.
Senior Armenian officials have thanked Iran for reaffirming its strong opposition to land corridors passing through Armenia in response to Russia’s latest push for the opening of such transport links between Azerbaijan and its Nakhichevan exclave.
Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan on Monday declined to clarify whether Azerbaijan has agreed to uphold a 1991 declaration championed by Armenia in a draft peace treaty discussed by the two sides.
Armenia’s government does not regard Nagorno-Karabakh’s exiled leaders as legal representatives of the region and its displaced population, parliament speaker Alen Simonian said on Monday.
Armenia confirmed on Monday that it did not join last week the United States and European nations in calling for the creation of a special international tribunal for the “crime of aggression against Ukraine.”
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian confirmed through a spokeswoman on Friday that he will attend a summit of the BRICS group of major emerging economies in the Russian city of Kazan next month.
Armenia and Azerbaijan agree on about 80 percent of the text of a draft peace treaty discussed by them, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said on Friday.
The Iranian ambassador in Yerevan, Mehdi Sobhani, on Friday appeared to rule out the possibility of Armenia opening an extraterritorial land corridor for Azerbaijan which is strongly opposed by Iran.
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