A top Iranian security official reportedly reaffirmed Iran’s support for Armenia’s position on transport links with Azerbaijan during talks with Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian held in Yerevan on Thursday.
Two days after Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev made fresh threats of military action against Armenia, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian voiced support on Thursday for the dissolution of the OSCE Minsk Group on Nagorno-Karabakh demanded by Baku.
In a move that prompted fresh warnings from Russia, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s government officially announced on Thursday plans to seek Armenia’s membership in the European Union.
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.
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