Ruben Vardanyan, an Armenian billionaire and former Nagorno-Karabakh premier jailed by Azerbaijan, hit back at Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s recent scathing comments about him in a statement released by his Yerevan-based office on Friday.
Armenia must have full control over any road or railway that would connect Azerbaijan to its Nakhichevan exclave through Armenian territory, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian insisted on Wednesday.
Archbishop Bagrat Galstanian, the leader of an anti-government movement sparked by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s territorial concessions to Azerbaijan, visited the Armenian parliament and met with its two opposition groups on Monday ahead of renewed protests promised by him.
The European Union and Armenia have opened official negotiations on lifting the EU’s visa requirements for Armenian citizens, a process which is expected to take years.
Senior Armenian officials have thanked Iran for reaffirming its strong opposition to land corridors passing through Armenia in response to Russia’s latest push for the opening of such transport links between Azerbaijan and its Nakhichevan exclave.
Armenia’s government does not regard Nagorno-Karabakh’s exiled leaders as legal representatives of the region and its displaced population, parliament speaker Alen Simonian said on Monday.
The Iranian ambassador in Yerevan, Mehdi Sobhani, on Friday appeared to rule out the possibility of Armenia opening an extraterritorial land corridor for Azerbaijan which is strongly opposed by Iran.
An Azerbaijani cargo plane has carried out another flight to and from a military airfield in southern Israel in a sign of continuing Israeli arms supplies to Azerbaijan.
Armenia’s leadership is refusing to disclose its remaining disagreements with Azerbaijan that hamper the singing of a bilateral peace treaty.
Armenia will attend a summit of the BRICS group of major emerging economies in Russia next month, Deputy Foreign Minister Mnatsakan Safarian said on Wednesday.
A member of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s political team accused Azerbaijan on Tuesday of obstructing a resolution of the conflict with Armenia following Baku’s rejection of an interim peace deal proposed by Yerevan.
An Armenian appeals court on Tuesday shortened the detention period of Armen Ashotian, an opposition leader standing trial on what he calls politically motivated charges, raising hopes for his imminent release.
A representative of the main opposition Hayastan alliance said on Monday that it remains allied to Archbishop Bagrat Galstanian, the leader of an anti-government movement sparked by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s territorial concessions to Azerbaijan.
Armenia has denied that any incidents have occurred between its border guards and those of neighboring Azerbaijan at a recently demarcated section of the frontier, particularly in the area where a new road is being built on the Armenian side.
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s latest warning against the creation of a land corridor through Armenia to Azerbaijan’s Nakhichevan exclave was addressed to not only Baku but also Yerevan, Armenian analysts said on Wednesday.
Former Foreign Minister Ara Ayvazian has claimed that he was kept in the dark about the handover to Azerbaijan of contested border areas along Armenia’s Syunik province which Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian controversially ordered in December 2020.
Armenia and Iran have flatly denied a report claiming that they secretly signed earlier this year several contracts for the delivery of $500 million worth of Iranian weapons to Yerevan.
Azerbaijan has officially invited Armenia to attend the COP29 global climate summit that will take place in Baku in November.
Armenia and Azerbaijan accused each other of refusing to hold a meeting of their leaders on the sidelines of the European Political Community summit that took place in Britain on Thursday.
The United States is pressing Armenia and Azerbaijan to make “tough compromises” to negotiate a bilateral peace accord, the U.S. State Department said late on Monday, sparking Armenian opposition claims that Washington backs further Armenian concessions demanded by Baku.
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