Armenia has reaffirmed its support for a fact-finding mission of UNESCO in Nagorno-Karabakh in line with the 1954 Hague Convention on the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict and its two protocols, an Armenian Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Wednesday.
Azerbaijan freed and repatriated on Tuesday three more Armenians who were taken prisoner during or shortly after last year’s war in Nagorno-Karabakh.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian said on Wednesday that he cannot single-handedly call fresh parliamentary elections in Armenia following the recent war in Nagorno-Karabakh.
Armenia said on Saturday Russia that has tried unsuccessfully to organize a meeting of Armenian and Azerbaijani military officials in another attempt to stop hostilities in Nagorno-Karabakh.
A spokesman for Robert Kocharian said on Wednesday that 41 parliament deputies mainly representing the former Republican Party (HHK) have appealed to law-enforcement and judicial authorities to release Armenia’s former president from custody.
Lawyers for Robert Kocharian said on Monday that they will appeal on Tuesday against a Yerevan district court’s decision to allow law-enforcement authorities to arrest the former Armenian president on coup charges which he denies as politically motivated.
Investigators moved to arrest Armenia’s former President Robert Kocharian on Thursday after filing criminal charges against him stemming from a deadly 2008 crackdown on opposition protesters in Yerevan which was ordered by him.
Investigators interrogated former President Robert Kocharian on Thursday in connection with a deadly 2008 crackdown on opposition protesters in Yerevan which he ordered during the final weeks of his rule.
Health Minister Arsen Torosian on Thursday accused a hospital in Yerevan run by a relative of former President Serzh Sarkisian of engaging in fraudulent practices that cost the state at least 300 million drams ($620,000).
It is still too early to expect a major increase in U.S. investments in Armenia despite the new Armenian government’s efforts to improve the domestic business environment, U.S. Ambassador Richard Mills said on Wednesday.
Armenia’s State Revenue Committee (SRC) said on Friday that eight more companies have been accused of tax evasion.
Making rare visits to Armenia, senior diplomats from Turkey and Azerbaijan attended a regular meeting of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation (BSEC) organization held in Yerevan on Wednesday.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian denied trying to restrict press freedom in Armenia on Tuesday after warning unnamed broadcasters against disseminating “anti-state propaganda.”
Manvel Grigorian, a retired army general arrested at the weekend, denies the accusations of illegal arms possession and embezzlement levelled against him, his lawyers said on Tuesday.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian pledged to continue combatting corruption in Armenia in “the most resolute” way on Monday following the arrest of a retired army general accused of illegal arms possession and embezzlement.
A veteran lawyer defending the rights of Myanmar’s persecuted Rohingya Muslim minority received at the weekend an international humanitarian award created in memory of the 1915 Armenian genocide in Ottoman Turkey.
Samantha Power, a former special adviser to President Barack Obama, on Friday expressed regret at his failure to ensure an official U.S. recognition of the 1915 Armenian genocide in Ottoman Turkey during his tenure.
The National Security Service (NSS) confirmed on Tuesday that it has launched a tax evasion investigation into Armenia’s largest retail chain controlled by Samvel Aleksanian, a wealthy businessman representing the former ruling Republican Party (HHK) in parliament.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian rejected on Wednesday what he called “threats of violence” made by the leaders of a fringe opposition group imprisoned by the former Armenian authorities.
Armenia’s new government will set up soon a new and powerful state body in an effort to fulfill its pledges to eradicate endemic corruption in the country, Justice Minister Artak Zeynalian said on Friday.
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