Armenia and Azerbaijan have still not begun negotiations on demarcating their contested border, a senior Armenian diplomat insisted on Thursday.
Armenians can safely use an Azerbaijani-controlled section of the main highway that connects Armenia to Iran, a senior security official in Yerevan insisted on Monday.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian must be prosecuted for handing over strategic areas along Armenia’s southeastern Syunik province to Azerbaijan shortly after last year’s war in Nagorno-Karabakh, the main opposition Hayastan alliance said on Friday.
The Armenian government sent mixed signals on Wednesday in response to reports that the leaders of Armenia of Azerbaijan will meet in Moscow early next month to sign more Russian-brokered agreements.
Opposition deputies complained that senior military officials shed little light on the situation along Armenia’s border with Azerbaijan during a special session of the National Assembly held behind the closed doors on Tuesday.
The Armenian government reacted over the weekend to reports that the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan will meet in Moscow next month to sign two more far-reaching agreements.
Armenia’s political leadership on Thursday pointedly declined to comment on what Azerbaijani officials have described as “positive messages” sent by it to Baku of late.
A French company managing Armenia’s water distribution network should scale back a significant increase in the price of drinking water sought by it, the head of a state body regulating public utilities said on Wednesday.
Representatives of Armenia’s two leading opposition groups emphasized on Monday the significance of the ruling Civil Contract party’s failure to win weekend local elections in Gyumri and two other major communities.
Sirush Davtian is 65, lives in a modest village house and doesn’t quite look like a neophyte entrepreneur. Yet the ailing single woman is listed on a state business registry as the sole owner of a construction company set up in February with 140 million drams ($290,000) in capital.
Iran is ready to help Armenia build highways connecting the two neighboring states and bypassing Azerbaijani-controlled territory, a senior Iranian government official said during a visit to Yerevan on Tuesday.
A Russian company has bought a majority stake in Armenia’s largest mining enterprise and immediately ceded part of it to the Armenian government.
Armenia marked on Tuesday the 30th anniversary of its declaration of independence from the Soviet Union with official ceremonies and an open-air concert boycotted by opposition leaders and condemned by some relatives of Armenian soldiers killed in last year’s war in Nagorno-Karabakh.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian reacted cautiously on Wednesday to Baku’s decision to check and tax Iranian vehicles using a strategic road that passes through border areas along southeastern Armenia controversially handed over to Azerbaijan after last year’s war.
A former prosecutor heading Armenia’s judicial watchdog insisted on Tuesday that expensive properties belonging to him and his relatives are not the result of their illicit enrichment or other corrupt practices.
Lawmakers from the ruling Civil Contract party objected on Friday to an opposition proposal to legally task one of the standing committees of Armenia’s parliament with dealing with the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
Representatives of two opposition factions in the Armenian parliament have raised their concerns over the current situation at the border with Azerbaijan where at least two Armenian soldiers were killed and one was wounded during the past two days.
After several days of heated debates, the Armenian parliament elected on Thursday the chairpersons of its 12 standing committees, among them three opposition lawmakers.
Security guards intervened in a session of Armenia’s parliament on Wednesday as it descended into chaos amid bitter insults traded by pro-government and opposition lawmakers.
After a daylong stalemate, the Armenian parliament voted on Friday to appoint a leading member of the main opposition Hayastan bloc, Ishkhan Saghatelian, as one of its three deputy speakers.
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