Armenia’s government pointedly declined to react on Friday to the start of the trials in Azerbaijan of eight former leaders of Nagorno-Karabakh and eight other Karabakh Armenian prisoners which human rights activists in Yerevan condemned as a travesty of justice.
Armenian opposition representatives said on Friday that Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian is planning to make more territorial concessions to Azerbaijan as a result of the latest agreement on delimiting the Armenian-Azerbaijani border.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian telephoned Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday to discuss Armenia’s plans to strive to join the European Union which have prompted stern warnings from Moscow.
Interior Minister Arpine Sargsian downplayed on Thursday a 16 percent increase in armed robberies, shootouts and other firearm-related crimes registered by the Armenian police last year.
One day before the start of his trial in Baku, Armenian billionaire and former Nagorno-Karabakh premier Ruben Vardanyan on Thursday rejected criminal charges brought against him as politically motivated and accused Azerbaijani investigators of attributing false testimony to him.
Armenia reported on Thursday progress in the latest round of negotiations with Azerbaijan on delineating the long border between the two states.
Armenia’s Foreign Ministry declined to clarify on Thursday when Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan will visit Russia to discuss heightened tensions between the two countries.
Armenian analysts cautioned on Wednesday against excessive expectations from a U.S.-Armenian agreement to upgrade bilateral relations to “strategic partnership,” saying that Washington did not pledge to give Yerevan security guarantees or significant military aid.
Defense Minister Suren Papikian said on Wednesday that he sees no “grounds” for the outbreak of another war with Azerbaijan when he commented on Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev’s latest threats of military action against Armenia.
Two prominent Armenian businessmen have expressed serious concern about the possibility of Armenia’s withdrawal from a Russian-led trade bloc raised by Yerevan’s decision to strive to join the European Union.
The Armenian government threatened on Wednesday to block the broadcasts to Armenia of another program of Russian state television after protesting against its weekend report critical of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s policies.
The United States on Tuesday officially upgraded its relations with Armenia to “strategic partnership” and said they will deepen further in the coming years.
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