The European Parliament on Thursday condemned the ongoing trials of eight former leaders of Nagorno-Karabakh jailed in Azerbaijan and demanded the immediate release of these and 15 other Armenian prisoners described by it as “hostages.”
Armenia confirmed on Thursday that it has accepted Azerbaijan’s proposals regarding their remaining differences over a bilateral peace treaty discussed by the two sides.
Dutch Foreign Minister Caspar Veldkamp visited a section of Armenia’s border with Azerbaijan and met with European Union monitors deployed there at the end of a trip to the country on Wednesday evening.
The Armenian Apostolic Church on Wednesday urged Ruben Vardanyan, a former Nagorno-Karabakh premier jailed in Azerbaijan, to end his hunger strike which he began over three weeks ago in protest against his ongoing “show” trial.
Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan insisted on Wednesday that Armenia and Azerbaijan could finalize a bilateral peace accord soon despite multiple preconditions set by Baku.
Armenian law-enforcement authorities have filed new criminal charges against former President Serzh Sarkisian less than one year after he was acquitted in a marathon corruption trial, it emerged on Wednesday.
Prosecutor-General Anna Vardapetian has asked the Armenian parliament to allow criminal charges to be brought against two of its opposition members.
Representatives of Nagorno-Karabakh’s ethnic Armenian residents displaced by Azerbaijan’s September 2023 offensive have decided to ask Switzerland to champion their right to safely return to their homeland on the international stage.
The son of Gagik Tsarukian, a wealthy businessman and politician, has still not returned to Armenia more than five months after leaving the country following a shooting incident that led to his indictment.
Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar praised his country’s deepening relations with Armenia during what he described as “productive” talks with his Armenian counterpart Ararat Mirzoyan held in New Delhi on Monday.
Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov reiterated Baku’s main precondition for signing a peace deal with Armenia on Tuesday one day after his Armenian counterpart said the two nations are now closer to ending their conflict than ever before.
Armenia should enter into a defense alliance with neighboring Iran in order to ward off a large-scale Azerbaijani attack on its territory, the top leader of the opposition Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun) said on Monday.
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