U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken again met with the foreign ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan in New York on Thursday for trilateral talks on a peace deal between the two South Caucasus nations.
An Armenian deputy justice minister suspected by supporters of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian of sympathizing with former President Robert Kocharian resigned on Thursday after just 20 days in office.
Armenia’s Constitutional Court on Thursday gave the green light for parliamentary ratification of a recent agreement with Azerbaijan supposedly laying out the principles of delineating the Armenian-Azerbaijani border.
The Armenian government is planning to increase its defense expenditures by 20 percent to almost 665 billion drams ($1.7 billion) next year.
France “stands firmly” with Armenia “in the face of pressure from Azerbaijan,” French President Emmanuel Macron said late on Wednesday in a speech at the UN General Assembly.
Twenty-two residents of Nagorno-Karabakh are still missing one year after a powerful explosion at a fuel depot outside Stepanakert which occurred during the mass exodus of the region’s ethnic Armenian population triggered by an Azerbaijani military offensive.
Law-enforcement authorities have launched a corruption investigation into the municipal administration of Kapan more than two months after the southeastern Armenian town’s mayor gave a warm welcome to an outspoken archbishop seeking to oust Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian.
A group of lawmakers from Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s Civil Contract party have called for the dismissal of Justice Minister Grigor Minasian, who is related to a key member of Armenia’s former leadership.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan appeared to again link the normalization of Turkish-Armenian relations with a peace deal between Armenia and Azerbaijan during talks with Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian held in New York late on Tuesday.
U.S. Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris has said that Nagorno-Karabakh’s ethnic Armenian population displaced by last year’s Azerbaijani offensive has a legitimate right to “return safely” to its homeland.
Eight months after controversially joining the International Criminal Court (ICC), Armenia has not filed any cases against Azerbaijan at The Hague tribunal despite promises given by the Armenian government.
It is still not clear when the Armenian government will start the repeatedly delayed introduction of a national system of health insurance, a senior official said on Tuesday.
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