Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian defended his track record on Monday, saying that his administration has achieved the key aim of the “velvet revolution” that brought him to power three years ago.
Former President Robert Kocharian has said that he will team up with two or three Armenian opposition parties to participate in snap parliamentary elections expected in June.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian sees no contradictions between his comments about why Armenia did not purchase missiles for Russian fighter jets to be able to use them in its recent war with Azerbaijan and his prewar post on social media about the multirole aircraft “successfully testing missiles.”
Armenia on Tuesday again accused Azerbaijan of “artificially” delaying the release of Armenian soldiers and civilians remaining in Azerbaijani captivity more than three months after a Russian-brokered ceasefire stopped the war in Nagorno-Karabakh.
A major opposition party demanded on Friday explanations from the Armenian government over allegations that a controversial delimitation of Armenia’s border with Azerbaijan was the result of its secret agreement with Baku reached following the autumn war in Nagorno-Karabakh.
Azerbaijan regained control of another distict adjacent to Nagorno-Karabakh on Tuesday after Armenian forces withdrew from it in line with a Russian-brokered ceasefire that stopped the Armenian-Azerbaijani war on November 10.
The National Assembly rejected on Thursday an opposition proposal to lift martial law which was declared in Armenia following the outbreak of the Nagorno-Karabakh war on September 27.
Armenian officials denied Thursday Russian President Vladimir Putin’s assertion that Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian would have prevented significant Armenian territorial losses in Nagorno-Karabakh had he accepted Azerbaijan’s terms of a ceasefire set three weeks before the end of the war.
About two dozen opposition political parties have announced their plans to hold a rally in Yerevan one day after demanding that Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian resign.
Nagorno-Karabakh towns again came under rocket fire on Thursday as heavy fighting continued in the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict zone for a twelfth day.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian defended on Thursday his government’s decision to require schoolchildren to wear face masks during classes that will resume across Armenia on September 15.
Health Minister Arsen Torosian on Thursday dismissed rumors about his impending dismissal and defended his decision to go on vacation despite the continuing coronavirus crisis in Armenia.
Health Minister Arsen Torosian denied on Tuesday press reports about his resignation after being allowed to take a three-week vacation despite the continuing coronavirus crisis in Armenia.
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian has chided, through his spokesperson, former President Serzh Sarkisian over his remarks made at a press conference on Wednesday regarding the July clashes at the Armenian-Azerbaijani border.
Armenia will maintain its current parliamentary form of government, but will scrap a controversial provision that gives the force that wins in general elections additional seats in the National Assembly to form a “stable majority,” a member of the commission drafting constitutional changes said.
Armenia’s Ministry of Justice has drafted a package of constitutional laws under which it proposes the establishment of a specialized anti-corruption court.
The Armenian government said on Monday that it is considering lifting a coronavirus-related ban on rallies while keeping in place other safety rules imposed by it more than four months ago.
Armenian authorities have fined a pro-government parliamentarian and shut down a lakeside resort where he partied at the weekend in breach or coronavirus safety rules set by the government.
Gagik Tsarukian, the leader of the main opposition Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK), on Friday again accused Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s government of mishandling the coronavirus crisis and its socioeconomic consequences.
Armenia’s Constitutional Court did not make a quorum on Tuesday to start hearings on the legality of coup charges brought against former President Robert Kocharian.
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