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.
Armenia accused Azerbaijan of planning another, more large-scale attack on its territory on Thursday during an emergency session of the UN Security Council which discussed this week’s fighting on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border.
By escalating the situation in and around Nagorno-Karabakh Azerbaijan pursues three goals that it wants to achieve either by force or the threat of force, which it hopes will pressure Armenia to capitulate in negotiations, an international think tank says in its latest report on the region.
Washington is closely following the situation in Nagorno-Karabakh and urges immediate steps to reduce tensions and avoid further escalation, the United States mission to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) said on Tuesday.
The U.S. ambassador to Armenia, Lynne Tracy, on Tuesday reaffirmed Washington’s stated readiness for renewed cooperation with Russia on facilitating a settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
The United States is willing to continue to cooperate with Russia in facilitating a settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Karen Donfried insisted over the weekend.
The European Union has replaced Russia as the lead player in international efforts to broker peace between Armenia and Azerbaijan, an EU official claimed on Friday.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov spoke with his Armenian and Azerbaijani counterparts by phone on Monday one day after the leaders of the two South Caucasus states met again in Brussels.
Azerbaijan has not yet accepted Armenia’s counterproposals regarding the agenda of official negotiations on a peace treaty between the two South Caucasus states, according to Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan.
The European Union plans to organize more negotiations between Armenia and Azerbaijan to follow up on understandings reached by their leaders in Brussels on Wednesday, according to a senior EU diplomat.
European Council President Charles Michel will host fresh talks between the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan in Brussels next week, it was announced on Wednesday.
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.
Russia has reiterated that the U.S., Russian and French mediators co-heading the OSCE Minsk Group should be able to resume their visits to Nagorno-Karabakh as part of their peace efforts.
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev will meet in Brussels on Tuesday for talks hosted by European Council President Charles Michel, a senior European Union official said on Monday.
A trilateral meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev will take place in Sochi on November 26, the Kremlin said on Tuesday.
The leaders of Armenia and Belarus have discussed “problematic issues” within the framework of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), official Minsk reported on Monday.
In a second telephone conversation with Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian this week Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday again discussed agreements on Nagorno-Karabakh and the situation in the South Caucasus, the Kremlin said.
New details of an announced meeting between the Armenian and Azerbaijani leaders in Brussels next month have been revealed to RFE/RL.
Russian President Vladimir Putin struck an optimistic note speaking about prospects of an Armenian-Azerbaijani settlement as he addressed top diplomats at a meeting in Moscow on Thursday.
Azerbaijani forces have invaded the territory of Armenia in one of the eastern sections of the border, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian said during a meeting of the country’s Security Council on Monday.
The U.S. State Department has condemned the killing of an ethnic Armenian resident of Nagorno-Karabakh committed just outside the Azerbaijani-controlled town of Shushi (Shusha) on Monday.
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