Sparking a further backlash in Armenia, a senior Russian lawmaker has claimed this week that the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan “does not fall within the competence of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO).”
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will host next week a fresh meeting of his Armenian and Azerbaijani counterparts, Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan announced on Thursday.
Russia believes that Armenia and Azerbaijan should not try to agree on Nagorno-Karabakh’s status in the foreseeable future, a senior Russian diplomat confirmed on Tuesday.
An Armenian pro-government lawmaker claimed on Tuesday that Russia is pressuring Armenia to open a land corridor for Azerbaijan.
Russia has accused the West of pressuring Armenia to cut its traditionally close ties with Moscow in an effort to end Russian presence in the South Caucasus.
Twenty-nine Armenian soldiers and civilians who went missing during last month’s fighting on Armenia’s border with Azerbaijan remain unaccounted for, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian said on Wednesday.
Armenia and Azerbaijan are planning to sign a bilateral peace treaty and delimit their border before the end of this year, according to a senior Armenian official.
Russia is trying to annex Armenia or make it part of its “union state” with Belarus by inciting Azerbaijani military aggression against its regional ally, a newspaper belonging to Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s family alleged on Tuesday.
Former President Robert Kocharian on Wednesday dismissed his predecessor Levon Ter-Petrosian’s calls for the Armenian opposition to rally around Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian and help him sign an unpopular peace deal with Azerbaijan.
Armenia and Azerbaijan have accused each other of violating the ceasefire that stopped heavy fighting on their border last week.
Armenia’s main opposition groups demanded a parliamentary vote of no confidence in Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian on Thursday amid continuing street protests in Yerevan sparked by his remarks on the conflict with Azerbaijan.
Senior Armenian and Azerbaijani government officials met in Moscow on Tuesday for the second round of negotiations on demarcating the long and heavily militarized border between the two states.
The Armenian government reaffirmed support for the OSCE Minsk Group on Friday in response to Azerbaijani criticism of apparent U.S. plans to continue using that mediation format for a resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken called for a “long-term political settlement to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict” late on Wednesday when he appointed a senior diplomat as the new U.S. co-chair of the OSCE Minsk Group.
Armenia considers the possibility of opening several checkpoints along its state border with Azerbaijan, according to a draft decision circulated by the country’s National Security Service.
Russia does not consider “separate criticism” of its peacekeepers in Nagorno-Karabakh to be fair, a senior diplomat in Moscow said on Thursday.
A senior Armenian lawmaker representing Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s Civil Contract party insisted on Friday that Turkey has not set or reaffirmed preconditions for normalizing its relations with Armenia.
A senior member of the ruling Civil Contract party said on Thursday that it will not strip opposition deputies boycotting sessions of Armenia’s parliament of their seats for now.
The leadership of Armenia’s parliament is due to meet later this week to decide whether to try to strip dozens of opposition deputies boycotting parliament sessions of their seats.
Defense Minister Suren Papikian said on Wednesday that he did not order the Armenian military to draft opposition activists in a bid to weaken continuing antigovernment demonstrations in Yerevan.
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