Armenia’s government approved on Thursday a concessional loan worth 3.5 billion drams ($8.6 million) to a U.S.-Armenian joint venture that relocated, for security reasons, a metallurgical plant which it began building on the border with Azerbaijan last year.
Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan indicated on Wednesday that Azerbaijan is reluctant to explicitly recognize Armenia’s borders through a bilateral peace treaty discussed by the two sides.
Armenia and Azerbaijan should sign a peace treaty before delimiting their long border, a senior Azerbaijani official said on Tuesday.
Russia has denied admitting that its leading state-owned TV channels have violated terms of their retransmission in Armenia agreed by the governments of the two countries three years ago.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian on Thursday reaffirmed Armenia’s readiness to establish transport links with neighboring Azerbaijan and Turkey while insisting that all railways and roads passing through Armenian territory must be under Yerevan’s full control.
Despite the fact that Armenia will not participating in the November 23 summit of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) in Minsk, the Russian-led defense bloc “continues to work on sending an observation mission to Armenia.”
German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock called on Armenia and Azerbaijan to resume peace talks mediated by the European Union when she visited Yerevan on Friday.
Russia gave on Friday more indications that it will withdraw its peacekeeping forces from Nagorno-Karabakh following the Azerbaijani takeover of the territory and the mass exodus of its ethnic Armenian population.
France is ready to deliver weapons to Armenia to help the South Caucasus state counter threats to its territorial integrity, French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna said during a visit to Yerevan late on Tuesday.
All ethnic Armenians remaining in Nagorno-Karabakh will flee to Armenia in the coming days, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian said on Thursday, accusing Azerbaijan of practically finishing “ethnic cleansing” in the region.
The United States and the European Union pledged on Tuesday to provide urgent humanitarian aid to ethnic Armenian residents of Nagorno-Karabakh fleeing to Armenia in droves amid the ongoing restoration of Azerbaijani control over the region.
The Armenian government is making contingency plans for a mass exodus of Nagorno-Karabakh’s population to Armenia following the latest Azerbaijani offensive in the region, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian said on Friday.
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday defended Russian peacekeepers in Nagorno-Karabakh accused by Armenia of not protecting the region’s population against Azerbaijani attacks.
Three disparate opposition groups won a majority of seats in Yerevan’s municipal council elected on Sunday, putting them in a position to install the new mayor of the Armenian capital.
Armenia’s leading anti-corruption watchdog on Wednesday expressed concern over the choice of a company that will spend about $6 million allocated by the Armenian government for American rapper Snoop Dogg’s upcoming concert in Yerevan.
Armenia has presented Azerbaijan with new proposals regarding a bilateral peace treaty discussed by the two countries, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian said on Thursday. He did not disclose them.
One Armenian soldier has been killed and one Azerbaijani serviceman wounded in fresh skirmishes reported from the Armenian-Azerbaijani border.
Armenia will raise the issue of the closed Lachin corridor at the United Nations Security Council, the country’s Ambassador-at-Large Edmon Marukian said on August 10, adding that related work is “in progress.”
Azerbaijan has cancelled Western-mediated talks with representatives of Nagorno-Karabakh scheduled for Tuesday, an official in Stepanakert claimed on Monday.
A man suspected of drug trafficking reportedly fell to his death after being interrogated by an Armenian law-enforcement agency on Thursday.
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