The Armenian armed forces must be the least important tool for ensuring the country’s security, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian declared on Monday, sparking more opposition accusations of “defeatism.”
Yerevan Mayor Tigran Avinian on Monday insisted that he has not abused his powers to enrich himself, his family or cronies, including a friend of his wife who is facing corruption charges.
In what opposition leaders see as yet another concession to Turkey, Armenia’s government has decided to remove an image of Mount Ararat from the entry and exit passport stamps issued by Armenian immigration officers.
Turkey promised to speed up a delayed partial opening of its border with Armenia during talks between senior representatives of the two neighboring states held in Yerevan on Friday.
Opposition lawmakers kept pressing the Armenian government on Friday to reveal practical modalities of a special transit corridor which it plans to open for Azerbaijan.
The son of Gyumri Mayor Vartan Ghukasian was moved to house arrest against investigators’ wishes hours after being detained on Thursday on extortion charges described by his father as politically motivated.
The United States is planning to allocate $145 million for the implementation of a U.S.-brokered agreement to open a transit route for Azerbaijan passing through Armenia, a senior State Department official said during a visit to Yerevan on Thursday.
Parliament speaker Alen Simonian on Thursday sought to rationalize Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev’s demands for would-be traffic between Azerbaijan and its Nakhichevan exclave through Armenia to be exempt from Armenian border checks.
Armenia’s government has moved to shorten compulsory military service in the country, prompting opposition claims that it is bowing to Azerbaijan’s demands to downsize the Armenian army.
The son of the opposition mayor of Armenia’s second largest city of Gyumri, Vartan Ghukasian, was arrested on Thursday in what the latter called a government attempt to intimidate or force him to resign.
The agreements reached by Armenia and Azerbaijan in Washington last month did not fully resolve the long-running conflict between the two South Caucasus states, Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan acknowledged on Wednesday.
Former President Serzh Sarkisian insisted on Wednesday that a parliamentary vote of no confidence in the Armenian government is the best way to unseat Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian.
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