Former President Robert Kocharian said on Monday that he has no plans to leave active politics and will continue to lead the main opposition Hayastan alliance in its declared efforts to oust Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian.
Yerevan Mayor Tigran Avinian on Monday condemned and threatened to crack down on commuters continuing to heed opposition calls to boycott a significant increase in the cost of public transport initiated by him.
Economy Minister Gevorg Papoyan has been accused by critics of misleading Armenians about the size of their country’s public debt which has doubled to over $12.8 billion during Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s time in office.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian and his press office said nothing about Armenia’s possible bid to join the European Union in statements on his talks with European Council President Antonio Costa held in Munich on Friday.
Amid Armenia’s lingering tensions with Russia, a senior lawmaker representing Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s party has visited Ukraine and praised his Ukrainian colleagues for their work in the face of “difficult conditions.”
The long list of accusations levelled by Azerbaijan against Armenian businessman and philanthropist Ruben Vardanyan includes a plot to assassinate Azerbaijani diplomats serving abroad.
The Russian Foreign Ministry insisted on Friday that Russia and Iran have similar positions on the thorny issue of transport links between Armenia and Azerbaijan.
Former President Levon Ter-Petrosian met with the Iranian ambassador to Armenia and lavished praise on him on Thursday one week after he reaffirmed Iran’s strong opposition to an Azerbaijani land corridor that would pass through a key Armenian region.
Contradicting his earlier claims, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian has acknowledged that international mediators presented Armenia and Azerbaijan with an updated plan to resolve the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict one year after he came to power in 2018.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s political allies have made ambiguous statements about his terms for opening transport links between Azerbaijan and its Nakhichevan exclave through Armenia, fueling opposition claims that Yerevan may have agreed to an extraterritorial corridor demanded by Baku.
Armenia’s and India’s top defense officials have reportedly agreed to step up military cooperation between the two nations that has already deepened significantly in the last several years.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian expressed confidence on Wednesday that the new U.S. administration will stick to a U.S.-Armenian document on “strategic partnership” signed just days before President Donald Trump’s inauguration.
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