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.
The National Assembly approved on Wednesday a government proposal to make Armenia’s top military general directly subordinate to the defense minister.
Another opposition lawmaker announced his resignation on Monday amid growing questions about continued opposition presence in Armenia’s parliament.
Ishkhan Saghatelian, a deputy speaker of the Armenian parliament, on Wednesday shrugged off the ruling Civil Contract party’s decision to strip him and another opposition leader of their parliamentary posts.
President Vahagn Khachaturian has defended Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s domestic policies and conciliatory line on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict strongly criticized by the Armenian opposition.
Former National Security Service (NSS) Director Artur Vanetsian has confirmed that his Fatherland party is parting ways with other major opposition forces that have been jointly trying to topple Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian with street protests.
The ruling Civil Contract party moved on Thursday to install an aide to Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian as Armenia’s next chief prosecutor.
The leadership of Armenia’s parliament affiliated with the ruling Civil Contract party has still not carried out its threats to strip opposition lawmakers boycotting parliament sessions of their seats.
An Armenian opposition supporter severely injured by riot police said on Wednesday that he has not been questioned by law-enforcement authorities supposedly investigating the use of force against protesters demanding Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s resignation.
Leaders of Armenia’s and Nagorno-Karabakh’s main opposition groups met late on Monday amid continuing anti-government protests in Yerevan sparked by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s conciliatory policy towards Azerbaijan.
Police fired stun grenades and made many arrests late on Friday in fresh clashes with opposition supporters who continued to demonstrate in Yerevan to demand Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s resignation.
The two opposition blocs represented in Armenia’s parliament have demanded that it officially speak out against any peace accord that would restore Azerbaijan’s control over Nagorno-Karabakh.
Armenia denied on Tuesday Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev’s claim that it has agreed to open a permanent land corridor that will connect Azerbaijan to its Nakhichevan exclave.
The leadership of Armenia’s parliament has threatened to strip its opposition members boycotting sessions of the National Assembly and leading ongoing anti-government protests in Yerevan of their seats.
Parliament speaker Alen Simonian on Tuesday pointedly declined to say whether Armenia will champion Nagorno-Karabakh’s right to self-determination in negotiations on a peace treaty with Azerbaijan.
Armenia’s political leadership has come under fresh fire after trying to dispel opposition concerns about its position on an Armenian-Azerbaijani peace treaty sought by Azerbaijan.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian defended his conciliatory policy towards Azerbaijan as he met with Nagorno-Karabakh’s leadership in Yerevan on Friday.
Armenian opposition leaders have blamed Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian for the death of a pregnant woman hit by a police car that led his motorcade in Yerevan.
Opposition leader Artur Vanetsian predicted mass demonstrations against the Armenian government on Thursday as he continued a nonstop sit-in in Yerevan’s Liberty Square.
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