Armenia has stopped championing Nagorno-Karabakh’s right to self-determination because of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian, a senior member of the main opposition Hayastan alliance said on Tuesday.
Nagorno-Karabakh’s leaders were due to travel to Yerevan on Monday to seek clarification over the implications of Armenia’s plans to recognize Azerbaijan’s territorial integrity through a bilateral peace treaty.
Nagorno-Karabakh’s leadership has warned Armenia’s government against signing a peace treaty with Azerbaijan that would uphold Azerbaijani sovereignty over the Armenian-populated territory.
Former President Levon Ter-Petrosian has called on Armenia’s government and leading opposition groups to reach a consensus on how to make peace with Azerbaijan and Turkey.
An Armenian court blocked on Friday the arrest of another town mayor who has demanded Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s resignation and backed protests against his rule.
An Armenian court refused on Thursday to allow investigators to arrest the mayor of the town of Goris who was prosecuted after calling for civil disobedience against Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian.
Hunan Poghosian, the governor of Armenia’s southeastern Syunik province, tendered his resignation on Monday.
Schools and universities across Armenia were again temporarily shut down on Thursday due to a sharp rise in coronavirus infections in the country.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian met on Monday with senior members of several Armenian opposition groups, including the former ruling Republican Party (HHK), to discuss the situation in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict zone.
France’s Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said on Wednesday that talks will be held in the coming days to try to convince the parties to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict to halt hostilities.
The Armenian parliament unanimously approved on Wednesday a government proposal to increase Armenia’s defense spending this year by roughly 13 percent because of the war in Nagorno-Karabakh.
The Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun) and two other opposition parties will demand the holding of fresh general elections at their first joint rally scheduled for October 8, a Dashnaktsutyun leader said on Wednesday.
The Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun) and two other opposition parties led by embattled businessman Gagik Tsarukian and former National Security Service Director Artur Vanetsian announced on Tuesday that they will hold a joint anti-government rally on October 8.
Armenia should nearly double its population, create 1.5 million new jobs, achieve a sevenfold increase in its average wage and eliminate poverty over the next 30 years, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian said on Monday.
Armenia’s COVID-19 infection rate may be increasing again after two months of steady decline, Deputy Health Minister Lena Nanushian warned on Friday.
Representatives of several civic groups deplored on Thursday Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s angry reaction to their criticism of the choice of three new members of Armenia’s Constitutional Court confirmed by the parliament.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian strongly defended on Wednesday the choice of three new members of Armenia’s Constitutional Court while acknowledging that it was not “ideal.”
An Armenian army officer was taken prisoner by Azerbaijani forces over the weekend in disputed circumstances.
For the first time since his resignation as prime minister in 2018, former Armenian President Serzh Sarkisian is going to hold a press conference, his office has announced.
Yerevan Insists On Armenian-Azeri Confidence-Building Measures
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