Armenia’s ruling Civil Contract party appears to have widened the pool of candidates to replace Justice Minister Grigor Minasian after failing to nominate any of its members for the vacant post.
Opposition lawmakers walked out of the Armenian parliament on Tuesday as it swiftly debated a border delimitation agreement with Azerbaijan which they say could be a prelude to further territorial concessions to Baku.
Soviet military maps drawn in the 1970s should not be the only blueprint for delineating Armenia’s border with Azerbaijan, Deputy Prime Minister Mher Grigorian said on Monday, indicating a change in the Armenian government’s position.
Senior members of Armenia’s ruling Civil Contract party have nominated four new candidates to replace Justice Minister Grigor Minasian who resigned on October 1 under pressure from pro-government lawmakers.
The ruling Civil Contract party’s parliamentary group on Wednesday signaled no plans to demand the resignation of the controversial head of Armenia’s Investigative Committee, Argishti Kyaramian, after he publicly traded insults with one of its members.
Armenia and Azerbaijan have again accused each other of not complying with a 2020 deal to open their border to trade and travel.
Three senior government officials have resigned after Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian held an emergency meeting on power cuts in Armenia that have become more frequent of late.
A pro-government lawmaker who reportedly engineered last week’s resignation of Justice Minister Grigor Minasian has failed to convince Armenia’s ruling Civil Contract party to designate her as his replacement.
Azerbaijan has downplayed the legal significance of a 1991 declaration championed by Armenia in peace talks, leading Yerevan to suggest that it may lay claim to Armenian territory.
Official Baku has dismissed a controversial ruling by the Armenian Constitutional Court which was apparently designed to disprove its assertions that Armenia’s constitution contains territorial claims to Azerbaijan.
Armenia’s judicial oversight body has accepted a government demand to fire a judge who acquitted former President Serzh Sarkisian of corruption charges earlier this year.
Armenia’s ruling Civil Contract party on Wednesday thwarted an opposition attempt to launch a parliamentary inquiry into socioeconomic problems facing refugees from Nagorno-Karabakh and government programs meant to address them.
In what critics see as a ruling ordered by the government, the Constitutional Court has played down the legal significance of a preamble to Armenia’s constitution which Azerbaijan says is the main obstacle to peace between the two nations.
Armenia and Azerbaijan did not move closer to a partial peace deal sought by Yerevan as a result of their fresh talks hosted by U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, a senior Armenian lawmaker said on Monday.
Catholicos Garegin II warned against attempts to “battle” against the leadership of the Armenian Apostolic Church on Sunday as he reconsecrated its main cathedral in the presence of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian.
A senior member of Armenia’s parliament on Friday condemned Justice Minister Grigor Minasian for accusing pro-government lawmakers of political “scheming” that forced one of his deputies to step down.
An Armenian deputy justice minister suspected by supporters of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian of sympathizing with former President Robert Kocharian resigned on Thursday after just 20 days in office.
A group of lawmakers from Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s Civil Contract party have called for the dismissal of Justice Minister Grigor Minasian, who is related to a key member of Armenia’s former leadership.
A court in Yerevan found Hrayr Tovmasian, the former chairman of Armenia’s Constitutional Court, guilty of charges rejected by him as politically motivated at the end of his marathon trial on Friday.
The Russian-led Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) poses an existential threat to Armenia, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian declared on Wednesday, prompting a swift rebuttal from Russia.
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