Russia said on Wednesday that it has clarified to Iran its renewed calls for a transport corridor to Azerbaijan’s Nakhichevan exclave passing through Armenia which have prompted angry reactions from Tehran.
Hrayr Tovmasian, the former chairman of Armenia’s Constitutional Court, rejected criminal charges levelled against him as baseless and politically motivated at the end of his marathon trial in Yerevan on Wednesday.
Azerbaijan is setting “ridiculous” conditions to avoid signing an Armenian-Azerbaijani peace treaty that is “not going to be fair” to Armenia, according to Ben Cardin, the chairman of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
The European Union and Armenia have opened official negotiations on lifting the EU’s visa requirements for Armenian citizens, a process which is expected to take years.
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.
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