Nagorno-Karabakh’s exiled leadership vowed on Wednesday to continue fighting for the displaced Karabakh Armenians’ right to return to their homeland despite the Armenian government’s refusal to raise it on the international stage.
Armenia defended on Wednesday a new policy framework for deepening its relations the European Union which has been denounced by Azerbaijan as a blow to the Armenian-Azerbaijani “peace agenda.”
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz accused Russia of trying to “destabilize” Armenia in the run-up to its parliamentary elections after holding talks with Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian in Berlin late on Tuesday.
Eleven civic organizations accused the Armenian authorities of violating religious freedom and illegally persecuting senior clerics on Tuesday when they reacted to Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s efforts to depose Catholicos Garegin II.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s government has made no progress in the last few years in its declared efforts to combat corruption in Armenia, the country’s leading anti-graft watchdog said on Tuesday.
Azerbaijan denounced on Tuesday a newly signed policy framework for deepening the European Union’s relations with Armenia, saying that it contradicts the Armenian-Azerbaijani “peace agenda.”
An Armenian opposition activist was hospitalized on Monday after being reportedly beaten up and seriously injured in broad daylight.
Former President Robert Kocharian reaffirmed at the weekend his plans to run in next year’s parliamentary elections, dismissing another opposition leader’s calls to stay out of the race.
U.S. President Donald Trump has officially thanked the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan for nominating him for the Nobel Peace Prize after their peace talks hosted by him in Washington in August.
Priests serving at the main church of Gyumri were forced to leave it ahead of a Sunday mass held there by renegade clerics as part of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s intensifying efforts to depose Catholicos Garegin II.
Investigators arrested two more local government officials in Gyumri on Friday in connection with angry protests that broke out on October 20 during the arrest of the city’s opposition mayor, Vartan Ghukasian.
An Armenian court has ordered Yerevan’s municipal council to reinstate one of its opposition members who were controversially stripped of their seats by the ruling Civil Contract party last year.
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