Armenia’s government is ready to consider “reasonable proposals” from opposition leader Raffi Hovannisian to defuse post-election tensions and carry out wide-ranging reforms in the country, a key political ally of President Serzh Sarkisian said on Wednesday.
The number of Armenian soldiers killed in skirmishes with Azerbaijani forces around Nagorno-Karabakh has drastically fallen this year despite increased ceasefire violations along the “line of contact,” a top military official in Stepanakert said on Wednesday.
International mediators voiced misgivings about the planned launch of commercial flights from Armenia to Nagorno-Karabakh on Thursday as they visited Stepanakert at the start of a new round of regional shuttle diplomacy.
Jorge Orrico, the speaker of the parliament of Uruguay, traveled to Nagorno-Karabakh this week, raising hopes in the unrecognized Armenian republic of a possible recognition by this Latin American state.
The United States has called for a “diplomatic solution” to an escalating Armenian-Azerbaijani war of words over the planned launch of commercial flights from Armenia to Nagorno-Karabakh.
Bako Sahakian, the president of Nagorno-Karabakh, was sworn in for a second five-year term in office on Friday nearly two months after winning a relatively tight presidential election.
International mediators have held separate negotiations with the foreign ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan to discuss the “damage” which they believe has been inflicted on the Nagorno-Karabakh peace process by the release from prison of the Azerbaijani killer of an Armenian army officer. (UPDATED)
Armenia will provide about 60 million drams ($146,000) worth of humanitarian assistance to victims of the powerful weekend earthquake in neighboring Iran, the government said on Thursday.
Residents of a remote Armenian village close to the Iranian border stayed and slept outdoors on Wednesday four days after a powerful earthquake in northwestern Iran that killed at least 250 people.
A retired army general who was the main opposition candidate in Nagorno-Karabakh’s recent presidential election announced on Thursday that he is setting up an opposition group to continue to challenge the current government in Stepanakert.
Bako Sahakian, the president of the self-proclaimed Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR), won a second term in office in an election which his main challenger described on Friday as “free but not fair.”
Voters in Nagorno-Karabakh went to the polls on Thursday in a presidential election strongly condemned by Azerbaijan but portrayed by Armenia as another manifestation of the democratic process in the disputed territory.
Nagorno-Karabakh’s President Bako Sahakian on Tuesday praised the presidential election campaign in the Armenian-populated disputed territory and insisted that he is untroubled by strong criticism from his main challenger.
The main opposition candidate in Nagorno-Karabakh’s upcoming presidential election on Monday warned the authorities there to ensure its freedom and fairness, saying that vote rigging would be tantamount to high treason.
International mediators crossed into Nagorno-Karabakh through the heavily fortified Armenian-Azerbaijani “line of contact” on Wednesday in a fresh round of regional shuttle diplomacy aimed at kick-starting the stalled peace process.
Voters in Nagorno-Karabakh will go to the polls on July 19 in a presidential election which is shaping up as a two-horse race between the disputed territory’s current president and a retired army general who played a major role in the war with Azerbaijan.
Authorities in Nagorno-Karabakh said on Thursday that they could relocate several villages to pave the way for large-scale mining operations in the territory’s northern Martakert district planned by a leading Armenian metallurgical company.
Scores of troops, tanks and other military hardware paraded across Stepanakert on Wednesday as Nagorno-Karabakh marked the 20th anniversary of a key battle that proved decisive for its victory in the 1991-1994 war with Azerbaijan.
In what authorities in Stepanakert say will be Nagorno-Karabakh’s largest economic project in a decade, a leading Armenian mining company has officially announced plans to invest about $80 million in developing another copper and molybdenum deposit in the territory.
International mediators have toured the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict zone amid continuing deadly skirmishes between Armenian and Azerbaijani forces that left two Azerbaijani soldiers dead at the weekend.
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