Azerbaijan is reluctant to accept a compromise solution to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian said on Wednesday ahead of his anticipated fresh talks with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev.
Economic Development Minister Tigran Khachatrian touted on Monday a preferential trade agreement signed by Iran and the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) last year, saying that it could greatly benefit Armenian exporters.
Samvel Babayan, a retired general who wants to run for president of Nagorno-Karabakh, on Monday claimed to have been “illegally” stripped of Karabakh citizenship over a decade ago.
The leaders and other members of a radical group that seized an Armenian police station in 2016 do not qualify for a general amnesty declared by the authorities late last year, Justice Minister Artak Zeynalian confirmed on Friday.
The Armenian government must not use the approaching 11th anniversary of deadly post-election violence in Yerevan for political purposes, a senior opposition lawmaker said on Friday.
Former President Levon Ter-Petrosian’s Armenian National Congress (HAK) has urged Armenia’s leadership to reverse the country’s transition to a parliamentary system of government which was completed less than a year ago.
Former Defense Minister Seyran Ohanian urged Armenian authorities on Friday to release former President Robert Kocharian from custody pending investigation into the 2008 post-election violence in Yerevan.
Opposition lawmakers accused Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian on Wednesday of showing contempt for their criticism of his government’s five-year policy program debated by the Armenian parliament.
A senior Armenian lawmaker expressed confidence on Monday that Western powers will not rebuke Armenia for deploying military personnel to Syria with Russia’s support.
The chief of the Armenian police, Valeri Osipian, on Wednesday spoke out against pardoning members of a radical group who stormed a police base in Yerevan and held him and several other officers hostage in 2016.
Samvel Babayan, Nagorno-Karabakh’s former military leader, has expressed his desire to run in a presidential election that will be held in the Armenian-populated territory next year.
Armenia’s Defense Ministry on Monday confirmed that it has purchased four multirole fighter jets from Russia and hinted at more such acquisitions in the future.
Criminal charges leveled against three retired top generals in connection with the 2008 post-election violence in Yerevan have affected morale within the Armenian military, Defense Minister Davit Tonoyan said on Monday.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian said on Wednesday that he and Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev did not reach any secret agreements to resolve the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict at their three meetings held in recent months.
Opposition lawmakers condemned on Monday Armenian provincial governors for paying themselves and their staffers lavish yearend bonuses.
Armenia’s new parliament elected last month almost unanimously chose a close associate of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian as its speaker at its inaugural session held on Monday.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian defended on Wednesday his decision to appoint an Armenian army general sacked following the 2016 war in Nagorno-Karabakh as his national security adviser.
A court in Yerevan on Friday refused to allow law-enforcement authorities to arrest a former senior aide to ex-President Robert Kocharian on a string of criminal charges.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian met with Bako Sahakian, the Nagorno-Karabakh president, in Yerevan on Thursday two weeks after accusing senior officials in Stepanakert of “meddling” in Armenia’s parliamentary race.
Armenian law-enforcement authorities have moved to arrest a former top aide to former President Robert Kocharian after bringing more criminal charges against him.
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