A senior Armenian lawmaker suggested on Monday that Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev is now reluctant to hold further talks with Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian to finalize a peace accord sought by Western powers.
About a dozen individuals accused or convicted of various crimes in Nagorno-Karabakh were set free late last month as the region’s ethnic Armenian population fled to Armenia following the Azerbaijani military offensive, a Karabakh official said on Wednesday.
Nagorno-Karabakh’s president accepted Azerbaijan’s demands to dissolve all Karabakh government bodies to allow the region’s ethnic Armenian population to safely flee its homeland, exiled Karabakh officials in Yerevan said on Tuesday.
More than 220 residents of Nagorno-Karabakh were killed during last month’s Azerbaijani military offensive and at least as many others died in the subsequent explosion at a local fuel depot, a Karabakh official said over the weekend.
An ethnic Armenian from Nagorno-Karabakh went on trial in Baku on Friday two and a half months after being arrested by Azerbaijani security forces during his aborted medical evacuation to Armenia.
An Armenian government official on Thursday urged the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to help reverse what Yerevan regards as “ethnic cleansing” in Nagorno-Karabakh resulting from last month’s Azerbaijani military offensive.
A civic activist and video blogger known for his strong criticism of Yerevan’s municipal authorities claimed to have been physically attacked by three other men outside his home late on Monday.
Azerbaijan may attack Armenia in the coming weeks to open a land corridor to its Nakhichevan exclave unless the West imposes sanctions on Baku, a senior Armenian diplomat claimed in an interview published on Monday.
Arshak Karapetian, a former Armenian defense minister and national security aide to Nikol Pashinian, has blamed him for the fall of Nagorno-Karabakh and pledged to fight for his removal from power.
The outgoing authorities in Stepanakert are trying to convince Azerbaijan to let Nagorno-Karabakh’s current and former leaders leave the region along with its tens of thousands of ordinary residents, a Karabakh official said on Friday.
Azerbaijan allowed Armenian doctors on Tuesday to visit Nagorno-Karabakh to treat and evacuate scores of people injured in Monday’s powerful explosion at a fuel depot outside Stepanakert.
Thousands of ethnic Armenian residents of Nagorno-Karabakh fled to Armenia overnight and on Monday one week after an Azerbaijani military offensive that will lead to the restoration of Baku’s full control over the region.
The Azerbaijani government has cited a statement by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian to reject Armenian and Western criticism of its military offensive in Nagorno-Karabakh that displaced a large part of the region’s population.
Heavy explosions were reported from Stepanakert and other parts of Nagorno-Karabakh on Tuesday as Azerbaijan announced a large-scale military operation against the Armenian-populated region.
Armenia and Azerbaijan continue to disagree on key terms of a bilateral peace treaty discussed by them, according to official Yerevan.
The U.S. and Armenian militaries began on Monday a joint military exercise in Armenia strongly criticized by Russia, the South Caucasus nation’s longtime ally.
An Armenian journalist working for the Russian news agency Sputnik and a pro-Russian blogger are among seven persons arrested in Armenia on suspicion of illegal arms possession and trafficking.
Russia continued to criticize on Thursday Armenia’s decision to host a joint U.S.-Armenian military exercise later this month.
Azerbaijani troops have reportedly opened fire at the civilian airport of Kapan for the third time since the recent start of commercial flights between the Armenian border town and Yerevan.
Nagorno-Karabakh’s leadership on Tuesday dismissed an Azerbaijani proposal to provide the Armenian-populated region with food that has been in short supply due to Baku’s eight-month blockade of the Lachin corridor.
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