More than a year after launching official talks on visa liberalization with the European Union, Armenia has received from Brussels an action plan outlining the steps the country must take to qualify for visa-free travel.
Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan has dismissed views that Armenia’s Constitution includes any provisions that could be of concern to Azerbaijan, rejecting Baku’s demands to make constitutional changes as a negotiation agenda.
Shipments of wheat from Russia and Kazakhstan are currently being transported to Armenia through Azerbaijani territory, Armenian authorities have confirmed.
Armenia’s ruling Civil Contract party plans to form its candidate list for the upcoming parliamentary elections through a new system involving self-nominations and internal primaries, party officials said.
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian struck a cautious tone on Tuesday when asked by the media to comment on recent statements by Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, who renewed calls for Azerbaijanis to be allowed to return to Armenia and again made claims regarding historical place names.
Tbilisi has strongly criticized the resolution passed during the recent Euronest Parliamentary Assembly session in Yerevan, which questions the legitimacy of the Georgian government.
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has again called for the return of ethnic Azerbaijanis to what Baku considers their historical homeland in modern-day Armenia, stressing at the same time that Armenians should not be concerned about this prospect.
Armenia has officially launched the Police Guard, a new division within the national police structure, the government announced over the weekend.
Armenian law-enforcement authorities have arrested the brother and nephew of Catholicos of All Armenians Garegin II on suspicion of committing a crime amid mounting tensions between the government and the Armenian Apostolic Church.
An opposition lawmaker accused the Armenian government on Friday of preventing his European colleagues from demanding that Azerbaijan enable Nagorno-Karabakh’s displaced population to safely return to the region.
Samvel Karapetian, a jailed billionaire emerging as a major opposition figure, on Friday kept challenging Armenian authorities to allow the national electric utility seized from him this summer to reduce electricity prices in the country.
After publicly suggesting that Azerbaijan has reason to seek an extraterritorial corridor through Armenia, parliament speaker Alen Simonian sought to also rationalize on Friday Baku’s demands for a change of the Armenian constitution.
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