Armenia is ready to negotiate on a peace deal with Azerbaijan proposed by Russia, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian said on Friday.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian may meet with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan next week on the sidelines of a European summit in Prague, a senior Armenian official confirmed on Thursday.
The Russian-led Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) has failed to properly react to large-scale fighting that erupted on Armenia’s border with Azerbaijan earlier this week, a senior Armenian official said on Friday.
Thousands of residents of Armenian towns and villages close to the Azerbaijani border have fled their homes since the outbreak of large-scale fighting between Armenian and Azerbaijani forces on Monday night.
Armenia and Azerbaijan have still not worked out key parameters of a bilateral peace deal after a series of face-to-face negotiations between their leaders, a senior Armenian pro-government parliamentarian said on Tuesday.
A senior Armenian official expressed hope on Tuesday that Turkey will implement “in the coming months” the first agreements reached during ongoing negotiations on normalizing Turkish-Armenian relations.
Justice Minister Karen Andreasian expressed his disappointment on Wednesday over leaked audio that led to the resignation of Armenia’s top judicial officer.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian on Tuesday reaffirmed plans to enact constitutional changes but again spoke out against restoring a presidential system of government in Armenia.
Armenia’s parliament controlled by the ruling Civil Contract party voted on Friday to dismiss one of its deputy speakers and the chairman of its economic committee affiliated with the main opposition Hayastan bloc.
Gagik Jahangirian, the controversial acting head of Armenia’s judicial watchdog, has dismissed calls for his resignation sparked by leaked audio in which he appeared to blackmail his predecessor at loggerheads with the government.
The European Union is not competing with Russia in its efforts to facilitate a “comprehensive settlement” of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, the EU’s special representative to the South Caucasus, Toivo Klaar, insisted at the weekend.
An Armenian human rights lawyer on Thursday accused Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian of grossly understating the number of Armenian prisoners of war and other captives still held by Azerbaijan.
A pregnant woman died on Tuesday after being hit by a police car that was part of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s motorcade racing through Yerevan.
Armenia’s leadership again indicated on Wednesday that it did not ask Russian peacekeepers to bar a group of Armenian opposition lawmakers from entering Nagorno-Karabakh.
Armenia has never had any territorial claims against Azerbaijan, a senior Armenian lawmaker said on Monday, commenting on the list of basic principles of negotiations for a peace agreement published by Baku.
The Azerbaijani authorities said on Tuesday that they intend to arrest and prosecute soon Ara Harutiunian, the Nagorno-Karabakh president.
Armenia should not anticipate significant economic benefits from a planned rail link with Azerbaijan that could give it a new trade route to Russia, former Deputy Prime Minister Vache Gabrielian insisted on Friday.
The two opposition forces represented in Armenia’s parliament have decided not to nominate a candidate for the new president of the republic who will be elected by lawmakers in the coming weeks.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian and his political team are not committed to turning Armenia into an established democracy, according to a top aide to former President Levon Ter-Petrosian.
Three days after holding his first meeting with a Turkish diplomat, a senior Armenian official on Monday expressed caution about the success of negotiations on normalizing Armenia’s relations with Turkey.
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