Azerbaijan continued to reject on Tuesday Armenia’s repeated proposals to sign an interim peace deal that would leave out their remaining disagreements.
Armenia’s Office of the Prosecutor-General said on Tuesday that it has appealed against a Yerevan court’s decision to acquit former President Serzh Sarkisian of corruption charges rejected by him as politically motivated.
Elina Avanesyan, an up-and-coming Russia-born ethnic Armenian tennis player, said she was happy to represent Armenia in international competitions after obtaining the country’s citizenship and making her debut under its flag last month.
An Armenian-Azerbaijani peace deal would pave the way for a land corridor connecting Azerbaijan to its Nakhichevan exclave as well as Turkey through Armenia, according to the head of Turkey’s National Intelligence Agency.
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev reportedly reiterated his preconditions for a peace deal with Armenia in a phone call with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday.
Archbishop Bagrat Galstanian, the leader of an anti-government movement sparked by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s territorial concessions to Azerbaijan, visited the Armenian parliament and met with its two opposition groups on Monday ahead of renewed protests promised by him.
French Foreign Minister Stephane Sejourne reaffirmed his country’s strong support for Armenia and its government’s efforts to negotiate a peace deal with Azerbaijan when he visited Yerevan on Monday.
Transit routes passing through Armenia must not undermine its territorial integrity, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexei Overchuk insisted over the weekend, commenting on Russia’s renewed calls for the opening of transports links between Azerbaijan and its Nakhichevan exclave.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian discussed Armenian-Azerbaijani peace talks with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken in a phone call late on Thursday.
Armenia’s Court of Cassation has ordered a new trial of former President Robert Kocharian more than three years after he was acquitted of coup charges rejected by him as politically motivated.
A senior Russian official who has mediated Armenian-Azerbaijani negotiations visited Armenia on Friday following Moscow’s accusations that Yerevan is torpedoing an agreement to give Azerbaijan a transport corridor to its Nakhichevan exclave.
Senior Armenian and Iranian diplomats have reportedly discussed Iran’s strong support for Armenia’s territorial integrity and recent developments related to it.
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