Armenian civic organizations and legal experts joined by their exiled colleagues from Nagorno-Karabakh denounced the Armenian government on Monday for expressing readiness to withdraw international lawsuits filed against Azerbaijan after the 2020 war.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian met on Monday with concerned residents of two villages in Armenia’s northern Tavush province adjacent to border areas which he seems intent on handing over to Azerbaijan.
Thousands of Russians who moved to Armenia after Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine appear to have voted against President Vladimir Putin in a tightly controlled presidential election that gave him a fifth term in office.
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg reportedly praised on Monday Azerbaijan’s close military ties with NATO member Turkey which helped it to win the 2020 war in Nagorno-Karabakh.
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.
Armenia has a legitimate right to apply for European Union membership, an EU foreign policy spokesman was reported to say on Friday.
Turkey’s leaders have renewed their demands for Armenia to open an extraterritorial corridor connecting Azerbaijan to its Nakhichevan exclave.
A local government official in Yerevan was arrested and charged with bribery on Thursday after law-enforcement officers raided a municipal department that issues construction permits.
Law-enforcement authorities have arrested four men accused of attempting politically motivated bomb attacks against members and supporters of Armenia’s ruling Civil Contract party.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian welcomed on Thursday a European Parliament resolution construed by him as an endorsement of his administration’s possible decision to seek Armenia’s membership in the European Union.
The European Parliament on Wednesday praised Armenia for freezing its membership of a Russian-led military alliance and said the European Union should “take full advantage” of the pro-Western shift in Armenian foreign policy.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian has downplayed the findings of two journalistic investigations questioning the legality of the financing of his Civil Contract party’s election campaigns.
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