The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention, a U.S. legal think-tank, on Thursday joined Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s domestic critics in accusing him of helping Turkey deny the 1915 Armenian genocide.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian and other government officials defended on Thursday the ongoing introduction of mandatory universal income declaration in Armenia which is due to be mostly completed by May 1.
Armenia remains ready to establish conventional transport links with Azerbaijan, Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan said on Thursday in response to Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev’s latest demands for a land corridor through a key Armenian region.
Representatives of the European Union member states approved on Wednesday a proposal to extend the EU’s monitoring mission along Armenia’s border with Azerbaijan by two years.
Russia again warned the Armenian government on Wednesday of severe economic consequences of its plans to seek Armenia’s membership in the European Union.
A former mayor of Vanadzor, who was arrested in December 2021 after defeating Armenia’s ruling party in a municipal election, was sentenced to four and a half years in prison on Wednesday at the end of his corruption trial.
One day after ruling out major concessions, Yerevan Mayor Tigran Avinian on Tuesday pledged to scale back the impending significant increase in the cost of public transport in the Armenian capital.
Political allies of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian have insisted that he did not deny or question the 1915 Armenian genocide in Ottoman Turkey in remarks that sparked an uproar from Armenian historians, opposition figures and retired diplomats.
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev continued to demand on Tuesday that Armenia open a land corridor that would connect Azerbaijan to its Nakhichevan exclave.
There are no signs of a buildup of Azerbaijani forces near the border with Armenia, the chief of the Armenian army’s General Staff said on Tuesday amid lingering fears of another Azerbaijani attack.
Deputy Foreign Minister Vahan Kostanian expressed Armenia’s readiness to forge ties with Syria’s new leadership when he visited Damascus on Monday.
Risking another diplomatic spat with Yerevan, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has blamed Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian for the fall of Nagorno-Karabakh and accused him of “destroying” Armenia with his bid to join the European Union.
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