Former President Levon Ter-Petrosian on Thursday called on Armenia’s leading opposition groups to join forces and exploit an anticipated constitutional referendum for toppling President Serzh Sarkisian.
Citing the need to address Azerbaijan’s concerns, Kazakhstan set a last-minute political condition for Armenia’s membership in its Eurasian Economic Union with Russia and Belarus that was officially established by their presidents on Thursday.
One Armenian and two Azerbaijani soldiers were killed near Nagorno-Karabakh early on Wednesday in fresh overnight fighting which the conflicting parties blamed on each other.
Azerbaijan can buy 100 more Russian battle tanks after receiving $1 billion worth of this and other military hardware, Russia’s main government agency overseeing arms deals with foreign states said on Friday.
The Karabakh Armenian and Azerbaijani militaries accused each other on Thursday of launching overnight commando raids on their “line of contact” around Nagorno-Karabakh which left at least three Azerbaijani soldiers wounded.
NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen praised Armenia for extending its military presence in Afghanistan and developing a “strong partnership” with the U.S.-led alliance as he met with the Armenian defense and foreign ministers in Brussels on Tuesday.
The Armenian government’s tax revenue increased marginally in the first quarter of this year, raising questions about a nearly 10 percent rise in public spending and faster economic growth projected by the 2014 state budget.
The U.S., Russian and French mediators marked on Monday the 20th anniversary of a ceasefire agreement that stopped the Armenian-Azerbaijani war for Nagorno-Karabakh with a joint statement questioning the conflicting parties’ declared commitment to peace.
President Serzh Sarkisian on Thursday reaffirmed his support for Russia’s position on the crisis in Ukraine, again defending a referendum in Crimea that led to the Black Sea region’s annexation by Moscow.
Armenia and Azerbaijan agree on the basic elements of a Nagorno-Karabakh settlement and must now take a final “bold step” to hammer out a historic peace deal, the United States said on Wednesday.
Iran’s top political leaders praised their country’s warm relationship with neighboring Armenia and called for it expansion on Monday as they met with the visiting Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian.
In what appeared to be a stark warning to his predecessor Robert Kocharian, President Serzh Sarkisian’s Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) indicated on Wednesday that it will not cede power to any other individual or political force in the next decade.
The presidents of Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan reaffirmed their support for Armenia’s membership in their Customs Union but set no definite date for it at a meeting in Minsk late on Tuesday.
President Serzh Sarkisian called on the European Union on Friday to continue to deepen its relations with Armenia through a new cooperation framework that would be “compatible” with his country’s upcoming accession to a Russian-led alliance of ex-Soviet republics.
Official Yerevan dismissed on Thursday Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s condolences extended to the descendants of Armenians massacred in the Ottoman Empire, saying that Ankara is simply switching to a “more sophisticated” tactic of genocide denial.
Former President Robert Kocharian underscored his deepening rift with President Serzh Sarkisian on Tuesday, describing as “woeful” the current Armenian leadership’s track record and denouncing its controversial plans for constitutional reform. (UPDATED)
A prominent Azerbaijani journalist and political analyst has been deported from Turkey and arrested in Azerbaijan on charges of high treason reportedly stemming from his repeated trips to Armenia. (UPDATED)
Inflation in Armenia continued to fall in the first quarter of this year, allowing the authorities in Yerevan to further ease their monetary policies that were tightened after last summer’s surge in key consumer prices.
President Serzh Sarkisian announced on Sunday his decision to appoint the influential parliament speaker Hovik Abrahamian as Armenia’s new prime minister. He acknowledged that he had serious misgivings about Abrahamian’s candidacy. (UPDATED)
Turkey on Friday condemned the U.S. Senate’s Foreign Relations Committee for approving a resolution that acknowledges the 1915 Armenian genocide in the Ottoman Empire and said it could harm Turkish-American relations.
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