The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ordered Azerbaijan to submit by November 4 fresh information about the detention and health conditions of 23 Armenian prisoners held by it, a Yerevan-based lawyer representing them said on Wednesday.
Parliament speaker Alen Simonian has unexpectedly blocked another senior pro-government lawmaker from releasing this week the findings of a parliamentary inquiry into the 2020 war in Nagorno-Karabakh.
Armenia is facing a shortage of military personnel, Deputy Defense Minister Arman Sargsian said on Tuesday less than a month after his ministry drafted legislation which could downsize the country’s army.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian again made clear on Tuesday that his government will not press Azerbaijan to enable Nagorno-Karabakh’s ethnic Armenian population displaced by the 2023 Azerbaijani offensive to return to its homeland.
Ignoring Nikol Pashinian’s objections, Azerbaijan has continued to describe as “Zangezur corridor” a special transit route for Azerbaijan which the Armenian prime minister pledged to open during a recent summit in Washington.
Armenian law-enforcement authorities claimed to have solved the killing of the opposition head of a major rural community just west of Yerevan after arresting two suspects over the weekend.
Armenia’s leadership remains reluctant to publicize past international proposals to end the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict in response to calls by former President Levon Ter-Petrosian and other opposition leaders blaming it for the 2020 war with Azerbaijan.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian has accused Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev of effectively making territorial claims against Armenia but again claimed that “peace has been established” between the two South Caucasus countries.
Opposition lawmakers condemned on Friday the Armenian government’s plans to cut its defense expenditures by more than 15 percent next year, saying that they represent yet another unilateral concession to Azerbaijan.
The outgoing Iranian ambassador to Armenia on Friday signaled Tehran’s lingering concerns about the Armenian government’s decision to let the United States administer a transit corridor for Azerbaijan adjacent to Iran.
Armenia’s police and Investigative Committee sacked on Friday two of their top officials in the Armavir province where the opposition head of a major local community was shot dead earlier this week.
Russian-Armenian relations are growing “in all areas,” Russian President Vladimir Putin told Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian during talks held in the Kremlin on Thursday night.
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