Armenian investigators reportedly raided the homes of supporters of a radical opposition group on Monday one day after three men linked to it detonated a hand grenade at the entrance to a police station in Yerevan.
Armenia must cede more territory to Azerbaijan to avoid another attack by its neighbor, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian told residents of Armenian border villages that would be gravely affected by that unilateral concession.
Law-enforcement authorities have arrested four men accused of attempting politically motivated bomb attacks against members and supporters of Armenia’s ruling Civil Contract party.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian has traded bitter accusations with his former defense minister, Arshak Karapetian, who has accused him of high treason and pledged to topple him.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian signaled on Tuesday his readiness to accept Azerbaijan’s demands for Armenia to withdraw from four border villages.
Armenia’s leadership has not made a final decision on whether to try to enact this year a new constitution sought by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian, one of his top political allies said on Tuesday.
Armenia has no choice but to accept Azerbaijan’s terms of a peace deal, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said on Monday ahead of fresh talks between the two nations.
Just days after his latest talks with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian has accused Azerbaijan of planning military aggression against Armenia.
Russian troops are not deployed in or around a border village where four Armenian soldiers were killed last week, a pro-government lawmaker said on Thursday, contradicting a senior Armenian official’s claim about Russia’s responsibility for the Azerbaijani ceasefire violation.
A member of Nagorno-Karabakh’s exiled leadership said on Tuesday that it is taking “concrete steps” for the eventual repatriation of the region’s ethnic Armenian population displaced by last September’s Azerbaijani military offensive.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian has dismissed the first deputy chief of the Armenian army’s General Staff, Lieutenant-General Kamo Kochunts, and appointed nine other senior officers to the top brass.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian defended his plans to try to enact a new Armenian constitution on Wednesday in the face of continuing opposition claims that he wants to make more concessions to Azerbaijan.
A state body overseeing Armenian Public Radio has moved to take action against its executive director Garegin Khumarian who has openly criticized Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s latest statements on the conflict with Azerbaijan.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s political team has not yet made a final decision on whether to try to remove from Armenia’s constitution any reference to a 1990 declaration of independence resented by Azerbaijan, a senior lawmaker said on Tuesday.
Opposition leaders accused Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian on Tuesday of being ready to make another concession to Azerbaijan and Turkey after one of his top political allies called for a change of Armenia’s national anthem and coat of arms.
Armenia is ready to sign a nonaggression pact with Azerbaijan and give other “guarantees” to Baku, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian said on Sunday.
Azerbaijan dismissed on Friday Armenia’s decision to provide it with more maps of Armenian minefields in and around Nagorno-Karabakh made in response to Azerbaijani demands for such information.
Opposition leaders and other critics of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian claim that he is seeking to enact a new constitution for Armenia at the behest of Azerbaijan.
Armenia’s prime minister and their cabinet should no longer necessarily enjoy the backing of the parliamentary majority, according to constitutional reform proposed by the country’s Minsitry of Justice.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian expressed hope on Wednesday that Azerbaijan is committed to making peace with Armenia, responding to fresh opposition claims that his far-reaching concessions to Baku have only created more security threats to his country.
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