Heghine Buniatyan has been a senior editor with RFE/RL’s Armenian Service since June 2016. She has previously served as the editor-in-chief of the Yerevan bureau, a broadcaster, and as the director of the Maxliberty Youth Program.
A preliminary agreement has been reached in Brussels on providing non-lethal assistance to Armenia from the European Peace Facility (EPF), a diplomatic document that RFE/RL’s Armenian Service has got hold of suggests.
The United States and Armenia have “very active and robust” discussions about security and defense, U.S. Ambassador to Armenia Kristina Kvien said in an interview with RFE/RL’s Armenian Service on Wednesday.
While no military component was discussed during last week’s meeting in Brussels between Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian and top EU and U.S. officials, a senior pro-government lawmaker in Yerevan hopes Armenia will soon be granted access to security assistance.
The European Union and the United States promised over $356 million in fresh assistance to Armenia on Friday as their top representatives met Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian to show support for his efforts to deepen Yerevan’s ties with the West.
Azerbaijan has renewed its demands for Armenia to open an extraterritorial corridor to its Nakhichevan exclave.
The European Union’s top official, Charles Michel, has said that the EU keeps “working very hard” to help Armenia and Azerbaijan negotiate a comprehensive peace agreement.
The coming weeks will be critical in negotiations between Armenia and Azerbaijan, a U.S. State Department official told a congressional hearing on November 15.
The United States is developing a “comprehensive, thorough and transparent” record of what happened in Nagorno-Karabakh, James O’Brien, Assistant Secretary at the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs, announced during a congressional hearing on Wednesday.
The European Union’s Foreign Ministers have approved the proposal to expand the border monitoring mission deployed in Armenia and to activate discussions on visa liberalization with Armenia, EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell said in Brussels on Monday.
The European Union may succeed in organizing next month a potentially decisive meeting of Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, a senior EU official said on Friday.
The European Union is planning to expand its monitoring mission deployed along Armenia’s border with Azerbaijan in February, a senior European official said on Friday.
European Council President Charles Michel has criticized Azerbaijan’s latest military offensive in Nagorno-Karabakh and warned Baku against attacking Armenia as well, a senior European Union official said on Thursday.
The European Union hopes for the start of direct dialogue between Azerbaijan and Nagorno-Karabakh’s leadership while pressing Baku to end its blockade of the Lachin corridor, a senior EU official said on Wednesday.
While most members of the United Nations Security Council seem to agree that the Lachin corridor linking Nagorno-Karabakh with Armenia should be opened, it is not clear yet whether the body will adopt a resolution or a statement on the matter after two-hour long discussions on August 16.
Azerbaijan has rejected Russia’s latest calls for an immediate end to its seven-month blockade of Nagorno-Karabakh’s only land link with Armenia which has led to a serious humanitarian crisis in the Armenian-populated region.
Armenian-Azerbaijani peace talks will lead nowhere if Baku persists in rejecting an “international mechanism” for dialogue with Nagorno-Karabakh’s leadership, Armenian parliament speaker Alen Simonian said on Monday.
Azerbaijan has made clear that it will not agree to any special arrangements for guaranteeing the rights and security of Nagorno-Karabakh’s ethnic Armenian population.
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko on Tuesday urged the Russian-led Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) to address serious security concerns of Armenia and other CSTO member states.
The United States has called on Armenia and Azerbaijan to withdraw their troops from the Armenian-Azerbaijani border after fresh fighting between them.
The leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan have agreed to meet not only in Brussels on Sunday but also in Moldova on June 1 in the presence of French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, the European Union insisted on Thursday.
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