The European Union announced on Monday the launch of a new and more long-term monitoring mission to Armenia’s volatile border with Azerbaijan which is strongly opposed by Russia.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian urged Nagorno-Karabakh’s leaders on Thursday to tone down their rhetoric and negotiate with Azerbaijan in order to end the continuing Azerbaijani blockade of the Lachin Corridor.
Turkey has officially allowed cargo shipments by air to and from Armenia in line with an interim agreement reached by the two neighboring states last year.
The Armenian authorities have moved to ratify the International Criminal Court’s founding treaty to pave the way for another legal action against Azerbaijan.
Armenia and Turkey will likely start “very soon” mutual cargo shipments by air in line with an interim agreement reached by them earlier this year, a senior Armenian official said on Friday.
The leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan may still hold fresh peace talks this month, a senior Armenian lawmaker said on Tuesday.
A senior Armenian official on Monday accused Azerbaijan of planning to close the sole road connecting Nagorno-Karabakh to Armenia.
After years of deliberations, the Armenian government on Thursday formally decided to set up a ministry of interior as part of a major structural reform of the national police and two other agencies.
The family of a young man who died 12 years ago in police custody expects that Armenian authorities will reinvestigate the case after a European Court ruling this week.
Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian stressed the importance of Armenia’s security on Friday as he inaugurated the Iranian consulate general in a strategic Armenian region bordering the Islamic Republic.
European Union countries on Monday gave the final green light to the deployment of up to 40 EU monitors to Armenia’s volatile border with Azerbaijan.
The pro-government majority in the National Assembly on Thursday voted to appoint two new members of a supposedly independent body overseeing Armenia’s courts.
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.
At least 60 houses and other structures in border settlements in Armenia were destroyed by shelling during two days of heavy fighting between Armenian and Azerbaijani forces, a senior official in Yerevan said on Thursday.
Armenia and Azerbaijan accused each other on Thursday of violating the ceasefire along their border, underscoring lingering tensions between the two states.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian and his political allies have defended a controversial Defense Ministry proposal to significantly shorten compulsory military service for conscripts willing to pay hefty fees.
The Russian embassy in Armenia has sent a note to the South Caucasus country’s Foreign Ministry over what it described as “false accusations” related to the recent explosion and fire at a Yerevan market in which at least 16 people were killed and dozens others were injured.
Armenia will complete the withdrawal of its troops from Nagorno-Karabakh in September, a senior Armenian official said on Tuesday following fresh complaints voiced by Azerbaijan’s leaders.
The Armenian police sacked on Tuesday the top police official of a small town where a gunman killed two local residents and wounded five others in disputed circumstances over the weekend.
Defense Minister Suren Papikian has indicated that the post of Armenia’s top military general will remain vacant until the government makes sure that its next holder is directly subordinate to him.
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