Armenia’s parliament on Wednesday allowed prosecutors to bring criminal charges against an opposition lawmaker who punched a pro-government colleague in disputed circumstances.
Several Armenian nongovernmental organizations called on Wednesday for a parliamentary ethics investigation into speaker Alen Simonian accused of spitting at a heckler in Yerevan.
Baku on Wednesday lambasted the head of European Union monitors deployed to Armenia’s border with Azerbaijan for essentially not ruling out the possibility of a fresh Azerbaijani military offensive there.
Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan confirmed on Wednesday that his planned trilateral meeting with his Russian and Azerbaijani counterparts could take place soon.
Armenia continued to accuse Azerbaijan on Tuesday of planning to provoke fresh fighting in Nagorno-Karabakh or along the Armenian-Azerbaijani border.
Nagorno-Karabakh’s leadership on Monday warned local residents to brace themselves for more Azerbaijani “provocations” following Sunday’s armed incident near Stepanakert that left five people dead.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Thursday advocated a peaceful resolution of the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict that would respect Nagorno-Karabakh residents’ right to self-determination.
Armenia and Azerbaijan will hold further high-level negotiations “in the coming days” to try to build on “significant progress” made by them in recent months, the U.S. State Department said on Wednesday.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian on Thursday expressed hope that Armenia and Azerbaijan will finalize in the near future a bilateral peace treaty while again accusing Baku of trying to depopulate Nagorno-Karabakh through an ongoing transport blockade.
Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan telephoned his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov after meeting with Russia’s chief Nagorno-Karabakh negotiator in Yerevan on Friday.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian has told senior Armenian officials to sue media outlets “falsely” accusing them of illicit enrichment, saying that such reports have contributed to a drop in Armenia’s position in a global corruption survey.
Responding to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, Armenian pro-government lawmakers reiterated on Friday a condition set by Yerevan for the deployment of monitors from the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) to Armenia’s border with Azerbaijan.
A senior European Union diplomat expressed serious concern over the continuing blockade of Nagorno-Karabakh’s land link with Armenia as he visited Yerevan on Monday.
Prosecutors have asked the Armenian parliament to allow them to bring criminal charges against Seyran Ohanian, the parliamentary leader of the main opposition Hayastan alliance.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian urged Nagorno-Karabakh’s leaders on Thursday to tone down their rhetoric and negotiate with Azerbaijan in order to end the continuing Azerbaijani blockade of the Lachin Corridor.
Political allies of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian toned down their rhetoric on Wednesday after Moscow angrily denied trying to force Armenia to join the “union state” of Russia and Belarus and open a corridor to Azerbaijan’s Nakhichevan exclave.
The United States has expressed serious concern over the reported disruption of natural gas supplies to Nagorno-Karabakh which followed the closure of the sole road connecting it to Armenia.
Senior Armenian officials have praised monitors deployed by the European Union to Armenia’s volatile border with Azerbaijan but not said whether Yerevan is seeking an extension of their two-month mission.
The European Union still hopes to organize another Armenian-Azerbaijani summit in Brussels despite disagreements over its format, an EU diplomatic source said on Tuesday.
Armenia has denied that a draft resolution at the recent Francophonie summit was altered before its final adoption after Azerbaijan’s president claimed that some of the “anti-Azerbaijani” passages were removed from it by “Baku’s friends.”
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