Armenia and Azerbaijan continue to disagree on two provisions of a draft bilateral peace treaty, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian said on Wednesday one day after Baku responded to Yerevan’s most recent proposals designed to bridge their remaining differences.
Ruben Vardanyan, an Armenian businessman and philanthropist jailed in Azerbaijan, reportedly felt unwell during his ongoing trial on Tuesday one week after going on hunger strike to protest against the “judicial farce.”
The top leader of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun) said on Wednesday that its affiliates in the United States are lobbying President Donald Trump’s administration to help the Karabakh Armenians’ safely return to their homeland.
Azerbaijan has responded to Armenia’s most recent proposals designed to bridge their remaining differences on a bilateral peace treaty, according to the Armenian Foreign Ministry.
A senior Armenian lawmaker complained on Tuesday that Azerbaijan is making it harder for Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s administration to enact a new Armenian constitution by continuing to publicly demand such a change.
Parliament speaker Alen Simonian telephoned his Russian counterpart Valentina Matvienko on Tuesday to discuss her planned visit to Armenia which may have been delayed amid lingering tensions between Moscow and Yerevan.
The European Union and Armenia are close to finalizing a new agreement to deepen their relations, a senior Armenian diplomat said on Tuesday.
Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan on Monday criticized for the first time the trials of former leaders of Nagorno-Karabakh jailed in Azerbaijan.
Armenian opposition leaders on Monday rejected as untrue French Ambassador Olivier Decottignies’s claim that Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian was not the first leader of Armenia to recognize Azerbaijani sovereignty over Nagorno-Karabakh.
An outspoken critic of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian has been indicted and banned from verbally attacking Armenia’s highest court accused by him of serving Azerbaijan and Turkey.
One of the two sticking points in Armenian-Azerbaijani talks on a bilateral peace treaty relates to Azerbaijan’s demands for a land corridor to its Nakhichevan exclave passing through Armenia, a senior official in Baku claimed on Friday.
Yerevan’s municipal administration faced more accusations of incompetence and mismanagement after the city’s public transport network largely collapsed due to heavy snowfall on Thursday evening.
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