Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg on Thursday again condemned the holding of the COP29 summit in Baku, saying that the international community thus let Azerbaijan “greenwash” ethnic cleansing in Nagorno-Karabakh and other “extreme human rights abuses” committed by it.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s Civil Contract party has signaled plans to delay the holding of an early municipal election in Gyumri, raising concerns among local opposition groups.
Armenia said on Thursday that it has not unfrozen its membership in the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) despite attending a meeting in Moscow of senior diplomats of the ex-Soviet states making up the Russian-led military alliance.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian on Thursday stepped up his criticism of Armenia’s 1990 declaration of independence which Azerbaijan says is the main hurdle to peace between the two South Caucasus nations.
Armenia’s government agencies must be purged of officials who have their underage sons renounce Armenian citizenship to avoid compulsory military service, Defense Minister Suren Papikian said on Wednesday.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian on Wednesday rejected continuing Azerbaijan demands for a change of Armenia’s constitution which Baku says contains territorial claims to Azerbaijan.
Iran and Russia have diverging interests in the South Caucasus, according to the Iranian ambassador to Armenia, Mehdi Sobhani.
The ruling Civil Contract party’s presumptive top candidate in the upcoming municipal election in Gyumri denied on Tuesday media reports that he bitterly argued and brawled with other local activists allied to the Armenian government.
Armenia’s government has to spend public money more sparingly due to an ongoing slowdown of economic growth in the country, Finance Minister Vahe Hovannisian said on Tuesday.
Armenian law-enforcement authorities have issued an arrest warrant for the son of Gagik Tsarukian, a wealthy businessman and politician, in connection with a shooting incident reported three weeks ago.
The pro-government majority in Armenia’s parliament on Tuesday rejected an opposition-drafted resolution calling on the international community to pressure Azerbaijan to free all of the at least 23 Armenian prisoners held by it.
Last year’s exodus of Nagorno-Karabakh’s ethnic Armenian population was the result of Azerbaijan’s systematic “policy of ethnic cleansing,” U.S.-based watchdog Freedom House and six other human rights groups said in an extensive report released on Monday.
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