President Serzh Sarkisian sought on Tuesday to lower expectations of an impending resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, saying that it will take years despite serious progress made in Armenian-Azerbaijani negotiations.
After more than a year of intensive negotiations welcomed and facilitated by the international community, Armenia and Turkey have announced a potentially ground-breaking agreement to normalize their historically strained relations in the coming months.
Opposition leader Levon Ter-Petrosian accused Armenia’s leadership of agreeing to put Nagorno-Karabakh back under Azerbaijani control as he continued his nationwide meetings with supporters on Tuesday.
President Serzh Sarkisian’s decision on whether or not visit Turkey in October is “irrelevant” to the normalization of Turkish-Armenian relations, a top representative of the main opposition Armenian National Congress (HAK) said on Monday.
A leading international risk assessment agency lowered Armenia’s debt rating by one notch late on Thursday, citing the severe impact of the global recession on the local economy.
Hundreds of Armenian troops began on Wednesday one-week military exercises which officials said are aimed at testing and improving their ability to participate in international peacekeeping operations.
The United States hopes that President Serzh Sarkisian will visit Turkey in October to continue Yerevan’s fence-mending “football diplomacy” with Ankara, U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Matthew Bryza said over the weekend.
A top U.S. official insisted on Saturday that Armenia and Azerbaijan are inching closer to a framework agreement on Nagorno-Karabakh and downplayed the significance of changes made in the international mediators’ existing peace proposals.
President Serzh Sarkisian has stepped up his criticism of Turkey’s preconditions for normalizing Turkish-Armenian relations, saying that they run counter to agreements reached by Ankara and Yerevan during their year-long negotiations.
In a further effort to mitigate the impact of the global recession, the World Bank allocated late Tuesday a new $30 million loan to Armenia aimed at rehabilitating some of the country's battered irrigation networks.
Cash remittances wired home by scores of Armenians working abroad fell by 36 percent to just under $600 million in the first half of this year, adding to the country’s worst economic downturn since the early 1990s.
International mediators have modified their proposed framework peace agreement on Nagorno-Karabakh to increase chances of its acceptance by Armenia and Azerbaijan, a top U.S. official said on Monday.
The final status of Nagorno-Karabakh may never be determined as a result of the internationally sponsored peace accord currently discussed by Armenia and Azerbaijan, according to Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliev.
Khachatur Sukiasian, a fugitive businessman and opposition parliamentarian, hinted on Monday that he might soon stop hiding and surrender to Armenian law-enforcement authorities to face prosecution on what he considers “false and fabricated” charges.
The World Bank announced on Friday the release of a new $60 million loan to Armenia that will help its government offset a shortfall in tax revenues resulting from the ongoing economic crisis.
Thousands of people rallied in Yerevan on Thursday to greet senior opposition figures that have been released from jail in a general amnesty declared by the Armenian authorities last month.
Armenia is still governed worse than most countries of the world despite achieving greater political stability and improving its business environment in recent years, according to a global survey released on Tuesday.
The presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan look set to hold soon yet another round of face-to-face negotiations which international mediators hope will remove the remaining obstacles to a framework peace agreement on Nagorno-Karabakh.
The Armenian government approved on Friday $44 million in fresh loans to three mining companies that have been struggling as a result of the global economic downturn.
The Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) has welcomed a general amnesty declared by the Armenian authorities as a further significant step towards defusing lingering political tensions in the country.
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