The Armenian armed forces must be the least important tool for ensuring the country’s security, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian declared on Monday, sparking more opposition accusations of “defeatism.”
Turkey promised to speed up a delayed partial opening of its border with Armenia during talks between senior representatives of the two neighboring states held in Yerevan on Friday.
Parliament speaker Alen Simonian on Thursday sought to rationalize Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev’s demands for would-be traffic between Azerbaijan and its Nakhichevan exclave through Armenia to be exempt from Armenian border checks.
Armenia’s government has moved to shorten compulsory military service in the country, prompting opposition claims that it is bowing to Azerbaijan’s demands to downsize the Armenian army.
Senior Turkish and Armenian officials will meet in Armenia in the coming days for fresh talks on the normalization of relations between their countries.
More than 100 heavy trucks belonging to Armenia’s largest food exporting company, Spayka, reportedly remain stranded in Russia more than one week after being intercepted by authorities there for still unknown reasons.
Deputy Defense Minister Hrachya Sargsian insisted on Friday that he does not know yet whether the Armenian government is indeed planning to end significant annual increases in its defense expenditures that followed the 2020 war in Nagorno-Karabakh.
Armenia’s parliamentary opposition has labeled the deal between Yerevan and Baku brokered by U.S. President Donald Trump as a “new existential threat” to the country and its people, calling it an act of “surrender” – claims have been dismissed by the Armenian government.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian is planning to open an extraterritorial corridor to Azerbaijan’s Nakhichevan exclave through a key Armenian province, representatives of Armenia’s leading opposition groups insisted on Thursday.
The Armenian government officially confirmed on Wednesday that U.S. President Donald Trump will host Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev for peace talks at the White House on Friday.
An Armenian pro-government parliamentarian expressed confidence on Friday that an agreement will be negotiated in the near future on a transport corridor that would connect Azerbaijan to its Nakhichevan exclave through Armenia.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian again indicated through a spokeswoman on Thursday that he is ready to let a foreign entity handle the transit of people and cargo from Azerbaijan to its Nakhichevan exclave through Armenia.
Lawyers for Samvel Karapetian, a billionaire businessman arrested last month after denouncing Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s campaign against the Armenian Apostolic Church, petitioned Armenia’s chief prosecutor on Tuesday to release him from custody.
Samvel Karapetian will be the top leader of a new opposition group which he is creating in a bid to unseat Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian, a representative of the jailed Russian-Armenian billionaire said at the weekend.
Armenian opposition leaders have accused Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian of planning to open an extraterritorial land corridor to Azerbaijan’s Nakhichevan exclave through Armenia’s strategic Syunik province in yet another concession to Baku.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian indicated on Wednesday that he is ready to let a foreign entity handle the movement of people and cargo from Azerbaijan to its Nakhichevan exclave through Armenia.
Opposition lawmakers have petitioned Armenia’s Constitutional Court to stop the government from seizing the national electric utility owned by Samvel Karapetian, a jailed billionaire critical of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian.
Armenia’s Anti-Corruption Committee (ACC) has brought criminal charges against Diana Gasparian, the former pro-government mayor of the town of Vagharshapat who resigned two months ago, sources told RFE/RL’s Armenian Service on Tuesday.
Armenia’s energy regulator has refused to allow the national electric utility owned by jailed businessman Samvel Karapetian to invest an additional 7 billion drams ($18 million) in the country’s power distribution network ahead of its anticipated seizure by the government.
The Armenian government is ready, in principle, to allow a foreign entity to handle the movement of people and cargo from Azerbaijan to its Nakhichevan exclave through Armenia, a senior official in Yerevan said on Thursday.
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