Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan on Friday did not deny the Armenian government’s plans to hand over more border areas to Azerbaijan, echoing Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s claims that they are not part of Armenia’s internationally recognized territory.
The Armenian opposition will push back hard against Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s attempts to enact a new constitution demanded by Azerbaijan, one of its leaders said on Wednesday.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian will likely combine a referendum on a new Armenian constitution sought by him with snap general elections, the leader of a political party allied to him suggested on Friday.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s political team has not yet made a final decision on whether to try to remove from Armenia’s constitution any reference to a 1990 declaration of independence resented by Azerbaijan, a senior lawmaker said on Tuesday.
Senior Armenian officials have acknowledged that Azerbaijan has objected to Armenia’s 1990 declaration of independence which Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian seems intent on removing from the national constitution.
The deputy chairman of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s Civil Contract party said on Tuesday that he is less optimistic about a peace treaty between Armenia and Azerbaijan after statements from Baku made in recent weeks.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian has accused Azerbaijan of undermining prospects for an Armenian-Azerbaijani peace accord with effective territorial claims to Armenia.
Armenia and Azerbaijan moved closer to signing a bilateral peace treaty by agreeing to exchange prisoners and take other confidence-building measures, a senior Armenian official said over the weekend.
Armenia holds a “very special place” from the perspective of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), a United States ambassador to this organization has told RFE/RL’s Armenian Service.
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.
Armenia’s National Security Service (NSS) said on Thursday that it has arrested five members of an armed group that plotted to seize government buildings and “disrupt the work of state bodies.”
Azerbaijani authorities reportedly arrested three former presidents of Nagorno-Karabakh and the current speaker of the local legislature on Tuesday as they continued their takeover of the depopulated region.
Armenian Defense Minister Suren Papikian declined to attend a meeting of top defense officials of ex-Soviet states held in Russia on Friday, underscoring Yerevan’s deepening rift with Moscow.
Ruben Vardanyan, an Armenian-born billionaire businessman who held the second-highest post in Nagorno-Karabakh’s leadership until February, was arrested by Azerbaijani authorities on Wednesday while fleeing the region along with thousands of Karabakh Armenians.
The ruling Civil Contract party has denied growing reports that it is forcing public sector employees in Yerevan to attend election campaign rallies of its mayoral candidate Tigran Avinian.
The ruling Civil Contract party expects to score a landslide victory in the upcoming municipal elections in Yerevan, its mayoral candidate, Tigran Avinian, said on Thursday.
Azerbaijan remains reluctant to recognize Armenia’s borders despite progress made in talks on an Armenian-Azerbaijani peace treaty, according to a senior official in Yerevan.
Thousands of people rallied in Stepanakert on Friday in what local officials described as the start of daily protests against Azerbaijan’s seven-month blockade of Nagorno-Karabakh and a worsening humanitarian crisis caused by it.
Opposition leaders accused Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian on Wednesday of again misleading the public to try to dodge responsibility for Armenia’s defeat in the 2020 war with Azerbaijan.
Russia’s Deputy Prime Minister Alexei Overchuk has shed light on remaining differences between Armenia and Azerbaijan that hamper the opening of their border to commercial traffic.
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