Armenia denied on Tuesday Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev’s claim that it has agreed to open a permanent land corridor that will connect Azerbaijan to its Nakhichevan exclave.
The leadership of Armenia’s parliament has threatened to strip its opposition members boycotting sessions of the National Assembly and leading ongoing anti-government protests in Yerevan of their seats.
Parliament speaker Alen Simonian on Tuesday pointedly declined to say whether Armenia will champion Nagorno-Karabakh’s right to self-determination in negotiations on a peace treaty with Azerbaijan.
Armenia’s political leadership has come under fresh fire after trying to dispel opposition concerns about its position on an Armenian-Azerbaijani peace treaty sought by Azerbaijan.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian defended his conciliatory policy towards Azerbaijan as he met with Nagorno-Karabakh’s leadership in Yerevan on Friday.
Armenian opposition leaders have blamed Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian for the death of a pregnant woman hit by a police car that led his motorcade in Yerevan.
Opposition leader Artur Vanetsian predicted mass demonstrations against the Armenian government on Thursday as he continued a nonstop sit-in in Yerevan’s Liberty Square.
Armenia plans to bring up the issue of Nagorno-Karabakh’s status during upcoming talks on an Armenian-Azerbaijani peace treaty sought by Azerbaijan, Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan said on Friday.
Opposition lawmakers expressed concern on Tuesday over the Armenian government’s stated readiness to negotiate a comprehensive “peace treaty” with Azerbaijan amid heightened tensions in Nagorno-Karabakh.
Two opposition factions in the Armenian parliament have leveled harsh criticism at the government, accusing it of not doing enough to ensure the security of Nagorno-Karabakh.
As a Minsk Group Co-Chair, the United States urges Armenia and Azerbaijan to continue and intensify their diplomatic engagement to find comprehensive solutions to all outstanding issues, the U.S. embassy in Yerevan said on Thursday.
The Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun) signaled on Thursday its readiness to launch a more broad-based opposition movement and street protests aimed at toppling Armenia’s government.
The two opposition alliances represented in the Armenian parliament said on Wednesday that they will boycott the inauguration ceremony of the country’s new president elected by lawmakers last week.
In a vote boycotted by its two opposition factions, the Armenian parliament elected on Thursday Minister of High-Technology Industry Vahagn Khachatrian as the new president of the republic.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian on Friday signaled concerns over the economic impact of Western sanctions, imposed on Russia over its invasion of Ukraine, on other members of the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU), including Armenia.
Nagorno-Karabakh’s ethnic Armenian leadership on Tuesday welcomed Russia’s recognition of two breakaway regions in eastern Ukraine as independent republics.
Armenia’s two main opposition forces have decided to boycott a parliamentary inquiry into the 2020 war in Nagorno-Karabakh, saying that it will be controlled by pro-government lawmakers and therefore cannot be objective.
The pro-government majority in the National Assembly has initiated a parliamentary inquiry into the Armenian authorities’ handling of the 2020 war in Nagorno-Karabakh as well as its causes.
In last-minute amendments condemned by opposition lawmakers as another blow to judicial independence, the Armenian parliament voted on Wednesday to make it easier for law-enforcement authorities to indict and arrest judges.
Armenia on Tuesday shrugged off Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko’s claims that it will have no choice but to join a Russian-led “union state” of former Soviet republics.
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