A senior pro-government lawmaker continued to demand on Thursday that speaker Alen Simonian allow him to present the Armenian parliament with the findings of a parliamentary inquiry into the 2020 war in Nagorno-Karabakh.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian met with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev on the sidelines of a European summit in Denmark on Thursday just days after accusing him of effectively making territorial claims against Armenia.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian pledged on Wednesday to “throw out” the opposition mayor of Armenia’s second largest city of Gyumri who took office in April following the ruling Civil Contract party’s defeat in a local election.
Armenia’s top appeals court has upheld a prison sentence given to a former commander of Nagorno-Karabakh’s army over one of its military setbacks suffered during the 2020 war with Azerbaijan.
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.
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