The Armenian government said on Wednesday that it has told a private entertainment company to return almost $6 million in government funding it received in 2023 to organize U.S. rapper Snoop Dogg’s concert in Yerevan that never took place.
Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan on Wednesday did not deny reports that the United States and Armenia are poised to sign an agreement on “strategic partnership” that will underscore their deepening relations.
Armenia and Azerbaijan are due to resume later this month negotiations on delineating their long border.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian pledged to stick to his “peace agenda” on Wednesday after Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev branded Armenia a “fascist state,” threatened to forcibly open a land corridor through Armenian territory and repeated his preconditions for a peace deal with Yerevan.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s office said on Tuesday that he may agree to publicize all peace proposals on Nagorno-Karabakh, which had been made by U.S., Russian and French mediators, in response to calls from his critics.
Armenia remains committed to deepening its relations with neighboring Iran in all fields, the new Armenian ambassador in Tehran told Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on Tuesday.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian on Tuesday named a 32-year-woman as head of the Armenian Justice Ministry’s Penitentiary Service managing the country’s prisons.
Catholicos Garegin II, the supreme head of the Armenian Apostolic Church, listed “lust for power” among Armenia’s problems on Monday as he celebrated a Christmas mass once again boycotted by the country’s political leadership.
A retired top general critical of the Armenian government was arrested at the weekend on charges stemming from the 2020 war with Azerbaijan during which he received Armenia’s highest state award from Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian.
Armenia’s trade with the United Arab Emirates (UAE) grew more than fivefold, to almost $5 billion, in the first ten months of 2024 as the South Caucasus country seemed to become a major conduit for exports of Russian gold and diamonds to world markets.
Amid widespread fears of another war with Azerbaijan and Baku’s demands for more Armenian concessions, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian has claimed to have made Armenia much more secure in the past year.
Russia has completed the withdrawal of its border guards from Armenia’s sole border crossing with Iran, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian announced on Monday.
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