Armenia’s economy is on track to expand by about 5 percent this year, the International Monetary Fund said on Friday in an upward revision of its earlier GDP growth forecast for the country.
The European Union is ready to assist in the creation of a U.S.-administered transit corridor that would connect Azerbaijan to its Nakhichevan exclave through Armenia’s strategic Syunik region, a senior EU official said on Friday.
A prominent lawyer critical of the Armenian government has been arrested and indicted after insulting, in a social media post, law-enforcement and judicial officials involved in this week’s arrest of yet another Armenian bishop.
Economy Minister Gevorg Papoyan assured protesting drivers of commercial trucks on Thursday that the Armenian government is trying to get Moscow to exempt them from Russia’s tighter immigration rules that are leaving them without work.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian indicated on Thursday that he will stop paying attention to Azerbaijan’s continuing description of a transit route, which would connect it to its Nakhichevan exclave through Armenia, as an extraterritorial “Zangezur corridor.”
An Armenian court has extended by another 30 days the pre-trial arrest of billionaire Samvel Karapetian, who is expected to challenge Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian in next year’s parliamentary elections.
Law-enforcement authorities pressed criminal charges against two of at least 13 priests detained by them on Wednesday in a criminal investigation linked by the Armenian Apostolic Church to Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s efforts to depose its supreme head, Catholicos Garegin II.
The signing of an Armenian-Azerbaijani peace treaty remains conditional on a change of Armenia’s constitution, Azerbaijan’s Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov reiterated on Wednesday.
The Armenian opposition condemned law-enforcement authorities for arresting 13 more clerics on Wednesday, saying that Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian has openly declared war on the Armenian Apostolic Church.
An Armenian bishop and at least 12 other priests were detained on Wednesday in a criminal investigation which the Armenian Apostolic Church linked to Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s continuing campaign against its top clergy.
The United States and Armenia have yet to work out practical modalities of a U.S.-administered transit corridor that would connect Azerbaijan to its Nakhichevan exclave through a strategic Armenian region, Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan said on Tuesday.
U.S. President Donald Trump cut short a brief conversation with Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian and referred to him as a “compatriot” of Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev on Monday during a summit in Egypt aimed at ending the devastating war in Gaza.
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