The presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan will meet in Vienna early next week for talks that will be co-hosted by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and his Russian and French counterparts, the U.S. State Department said on Friday.
Justice Minister Arpine Hovannisian has suspended the head of Armenia’s largest prison pending investigation into possible abuse of power alleged by law-enforcement authorities, it was announced on Wednesday.
Armenia’s leadership has reaffirmed its three conditions for resuming peace talks with Azerbaijan following heavy fighting around Nagorno-Karabakh that put the two countries on the brink of a full-scale war.
Azerbaijani troops reportedly shelled a town and a village in northern Nagorno-Karabakh on the night from Monday to Tuesday in a fresh upsurge of truce violations along the Armenian-Azerbaijani “line of contact” around the territory.
Armenia will acquire new weapons for its armed forces earlier than anticipated because of the escalation of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, Prime Minister Hovik Abrahamian said on Wednesday.
The deputy mayor of a village in central Armenia received a suspended three-year prison sentence on Thursday for falsifying the results of last December’s constitutional referendum in his community.
Russia has sent “positive” signals in response to an Armenian government request to cut the price of its natural gas delivered to Armenia, Prime Minister Hovik Abrahamian said on Tuesday.
The lawyer for Gevorg Safarian, an Armenian opposition activist prosecuted on what human rights groups consider politically motivated charges, claimed on Thursday that he has been assaulted in prison.
An opposition activist has been arrested and remanded in pre-trial custody after he and several other members of a radical group seeking to topple Armenia’s government clashed with riot police on New Year’s Eve.
