Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian said on Monday that he has reached an agreement with Russian President Vladimir Putin on new prices of Russian natural gas for Armenia which will be set in 2019.
The Azerbaijani leadership is ratcheting up tension in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict to prevent democratic change in Armenia from spreading to Azerbaijan, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian claimed on Thursday.
Richard Hoagland, the U.S. co-chair of the OSCE Minsk Group, announced late on Wednesday that another career diplomat will replace him next week as Washington’s chief mediator in Armenian-Azerbaijani peace talks.
Highlighting the rapid growth of Armenia’s information technology (IT) sector, an Armenian software company has attracted $5 million in funding from private investors in the United States.
Azerbaijan refused to allow international investigations of ceasefire violations around Nagorno-Karabakh shortly after agreeing to the confidence-building measure at an Armenian-Azerbaijani summit in May, Russia’s Foreign Ministry confirmed on Thursday.
Armenia delivered on Tuesday the first batch of humanitarian assistance to civilians in Syria increasingly suffering from the country’s devastating civil war.
The secretary general of the Russian-led Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) has voiced serious concern at the latest upsurge in ceasefire violations around Nagorno-Karabakh, saying that a full-scale Armenian-Azerbaijani war would destabilize “the whole Caucasus.”
Official Yerevan reacted angrily on Monday after Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev used a summit of the Group of 20 (G20) nations in Turkey to accuse Armenia of resorting to terrorism in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
Former President Robert Kocharian has called for a radical improvement of Armenia’s business environment, saying that the authorities must break up economic monopolies, create a level playing field for all firms and tackle corruption.
International mediators announced no possible dates for the next meeting of Armenia’s and Azerbaijan’s presidents as they ended their latest tour of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict zone in Yerevan on Wednesday.
President Serzh Sarkisian promised “special attention” to criminal investigations into non-combat deaths within the Armenian army ranks on Thursday as he was confronted by angry parents of dead soldiers demonstrating outside his office.
In a rare letter to his Armenian counterpart, Turkey’s President Abdullah Gul joined world leaders on Tuesday in congratulating Armenia on the 19th anniversary of its declaration of independence from the Soviet Union.
The resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict would reflect positively on the situation with human rights in both Armenia and Azerbaijan, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Monday.
