A representative of Armenia’s political leadership on Monday defended its failure to condemn or react otherwise to the trials of eight former leaders of Nagorno-Karabakh which began in Azerbaijan on Friday.
Human Rights Watch (HRW) has questioned the legality of the Armenian police’s heavy use of powerful stun grenades against anti-government demonstrators in Yerevan last June.
Turkey praised Armenia for extraditing at the weekend two men described by it as members of a Turkish organized crime group.
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.
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