Breaking with a decades-long tradition, Armenia’s state television did not broadcast a New Year’s Eve address by Catholicos Garegin II, the supreme head of the Armenian Apostolic Church increasingly at loggerheads with Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian.
Former President Serzh Sarkisian on Thursday brushed aside Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s latest statement blaming Armenia’s former leaders and foreign powers for the fall of Nagorno-Karabakh.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian spoke with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev on Tuesday during a summit of the leaders of ex-Soviet states in Saint Petersburg, an Armenian government spokeswoman said.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian flew to Saint Petersburg on Monday to meet with the leaders of Russia and other ex-Soviet states after boycotting their previous summits amid Yerevan’s rising tensions with Moscow.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian has rejected Russian President Vladimir Putin’s latest statement blaming him for Azerbaijan’s September military offensive in Nagorno-Karabakh and the resulting exodus of the region’s ethnic Armenian population.
Law-enforcement authorities have not prosecuted any of the officials blamed by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian for Azerbaijan’s seizure last spring of agricultural lands belonging to an Armenian border village.
Armenia will skip a session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) on Tuesday one month after Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian boycotted a summit of the leaders of ex-Soviet states making up the Russian-led military alliance.
Azerbaijan has rejected Armenia’s renewed calls for a mutual withdrawal of the two countries’ troops from their long and volatile border.
Nagorno-Karabakh’s exiled political leadership has balked at attempts to “finally close the Artsakh issue” while signaling its desire to discuss them with the Armenian government.
Armenia and Azerbaijan have not yet agreed on a new date for fresh talks between their foreign ministers in Washington, Armenian parliament speaker Alen Simonian said on Thursday.
Pro-government lawmakers rejected on Monday an opposition-backed ballot initiative to legally ban Armenia’s leadership from recognizing Nagorno-Karabakh as part of Azerbaijan.
Russia has failed to provide Armenia with any of the weapons or other military equipment covered by bilateral defense contracts worth $400 million signed after the 2020 war in Nagorno-Karabakh, a senior Armenian official said on Monday.
A political rival of Samvel Shahramanian claimed on Wednesday that Nagorno-Karabakh’s exiled president is negotiating with Azerbaijan’s government on the possible return of the Karabakh Armenians displaced as a result of the recent Azerbaijani military offensive.
Hundreds of Armenian trucks were stuck at the main Russian-Georgian border crossing on Monday after Russia reportedly tightened import and export controls on them amid its unprecedented tensions with Armenia.
Armenia could leave the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) due to the Russian-led alliance’s reluctance to openly support it in the conflict with Azerbaijan, a leading member of the ruling Civil Contract party said on Monday.
Despite the fact that Armenia will not participating in the November 23 summit of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) in Minsk, the Russian-led defense bloc “continues to work on sending an observation mission to Armenia.”
Brussels is looking for steps rather than just statements from Baku to show that Azerbaijan is ready for continuing negotiations with Armenia, a senior European Union diplomat has said.
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian has announced that he will not be attending the upcoming summit of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), which is due to be held in the Belarusian capital of Minsk on November 23.
An Armenian parliament commission probing the 2020 war in Nagorno-Karabakh has invited the region’s last president Samvel Shahramanian to testify before its members, the ad hoc body’s head has told RFE/RL’s Armenian Service.
Baku strongly condemns France’s recent shipment of military equipment to Armenia, a spokesman for the Azerbaijani foreign minister said on Monday as quoted by local media.
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