A pregnant woman died on Tuesday after being hit by a police car that was part of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s motorcade racing through Yerevan.
Armenia’s leadership again indicated on Wednesday that it did not ask Russian peacekeepers to bar a group of Armenian opposition lawmakers from entering Nagorno-Karabakh.
Armenia has never had any territorial claims against Azerbaijan, a senior Armenian lawmaker said on Monday, commenting on the list of basic principles of negotiations for a peace agreement published by Baku.
The Azerbaijani authorities said on Tuesday that they intend to arrest and prosecute soon Ara Harutiunian, the Nagorno-Karabakh president.
Armenia should not anticipate significant economic benefits from a planned rail link with Azerbaijan that could give it a new trade route to Russia, former Deputy Prime Minister Vache Gabrielian insisted on Friday.
The two opposition forces represented in Armenia’s parliament have decided not to nominate a candidate for the new president of the republic who will be elected by lawmakers in the coming weeks.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian and his political team are not committed to turning Armenia into an established democracy, according to a top aide to former President Levon Ter-Petrosian.
Three days after holding his first meeting with a Turkish diplomat, a senior Armenian official on Monday expressed caution about the success of negotiations on normalizing Armenia’s relations with Turkey.
Armenia will not cede any extraterritorial land corridors to Azerbaijan, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian said on Wednesday following renewed threats by Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev.
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has again threatened to forcibly open a land “corridor” that would connect Azerbaijan to its Nakhichevan exclave via Armenia’s southeastern Syunik province.
Armenia and Azerbaijan appear to have failed to put the finishing touches on an agreement to establish cross-border transport connections during the latest round of negotiations mediated by Russia.
The political party of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian has suffered another setback in Syunik as its candidate lost a municipal election in the southern province’s town of Kapan to a pro-opposition incumbent major over the weekend.
Armenia’s political leadership continued to downplay on Friday the effective closure of an Azerbaijani-controlled section of a strategic highway connecting the country to neighboring Iran.
The government said on Wednesday that it will form an ad hoc commission to organize the funeral of Vano Siradeghian, a prominent politician and former interior minister who died late last week more than two decades after fleeing Armenia.
Armenia accused Azerbaijan of serious human rights violations as the two South Caucasus nations that fought a six-week war last year faced off at the United Nations court in The Hague on Thursday.
Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan said on Wednesday that he and his Azerbaijani counterpart Jeyhun Bayramov will meet again soon for peace talks mediated by the U.S., Russian and French co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group.
Iran strongly opposes any redrawing of borders in the South Caucasus, Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said after meeting with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov in Moscow on Wednesday.
About two dozen civilian residents of Nagorno-Karabakh remain unaccounted for one year after the outbreak of the Armenian-Azerbaijani war, according to the authorities in Stepanakert.
A senior member of the opposition Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun) criticized on Wednesday Armenia’s efforts to embark on a dialogue with Turkey, saying that Ankara continues to set unacceptable preconditions for normalizing bilateral ties.
Georgia’s Prime Minister Irakli Gharibashvili stressed the importance of political stability in Armenia after holding talks with his Armenian counterpart Nikol Pashinian in Tbilisi on Wednesday.
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