The Armenian military released and repatriated two Azerbaijani soldiers late on Monday two days after capturing them on Armenia’s border with Azerbaijan.
The pro-government majority in the Armenian parliament scuttled on Wednesday a debate on an opposition-backed resolution effectively warning Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian against recognizing Azerbaijani sovereignty over Nagorno-Karabakh.
Angry relatives of Armenian soldiers remaining in Azerbaijani captivity have taken to the streets to protest against what they see as offensive comments made by parliament speaker Alen Simonian.
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 Kremlin has a negative perception of Armenia’s expected participation in a United States-initiated democracy summit next month, a Yerevan-based political analyst told RFE/RL’s Armenian Service after statements about the upcoming event made by senior Russian officials.
It is in the interest of Armenia that the process of delimitation and demarcation of its Soviet-era border with Azerbaijan should start as soon as possible, a senior pro-government lawmaker in Yerevan said on Tuesday.
Russia has offered Armenia to start the process of demarcation and delimitation of its Soviet-era border with Azerbaijan “from zero,” a senior lawmaker representing the ruling Civil Contract party said on Friday.
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.
Former President Robert Kocharian said on Monday that Armenia’s main opposition alliance led by him needs to “generate” greater popular anger at the government before trying to topple it with street protests.
Official Yerevan dismissed on Friday Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev’s fresh claim that Azerbaijan ended the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict with its victory in the six-week war stopped by a Russian-brokered ceasefire last November.
Armenia and Azerbaijan have still not started negotiations on demarcating their long and contested border, a senior Armenian official said on Thursday.
An Armenian court has refused to allow Robert Kocharian, a former president leading the main opposition Hayastan alliance, to visit Moscow at the invitation of Russia’s ruling party.
The main opposition Hayastan alliance accused the Armenian government on Wednesday of ordering a law-enforcement agency not to prosecute pro-government lawmakers who physically attacked their opposition colleagues on the parliament floor last month.
A key committee of the Armenian parliament on Monday again refused to appoint an outspoken opposition lawmaker as its deputy chairman.
For the second day in a row security guards have been called into the Armenian parliament chamber as another brawl between pro-government and opposition lawmakers broke out during the presentation of the government’s five-year action plan on Wednesday.
The United States has again called for a negotiated settlement of the conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh, this time raising the issue of the region’s status.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian proposed that Russia deploy more troops along Armenia’s border with Azerbaijan after Armenian and Azerbaijani forces stationed there again exchanged fire early on Thursday.
Former President Serzh Sarkisian’s opposition alliance said on Wednesday that it too will accept its seats in Armenia’s new parliament despite refusing to recognize Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s victory in last month’s parliamentary elections.
The ruling Civil Contract party confirmed on Monday reports that it will install one of its leading members, Alen Simonian, as the speaker of Armenia’s newly elected parliament.
The United States has pledged to continue to seek a peaceful resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh together with Russia and France, the two other co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group.
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