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.
Azerbaijan is setting “ridiculous” conditions to avoid signing an Armenian-Azerbaijani peace treaty that is “not going to be fair” to Armenia, according to Ben Cardin, the chairman of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
Exiled leaders of Nagorno-Karabakh have pushed backed against a senior Armenian official’s claims that their government bodies have ceased to exist since Azerbaijan regained full control of the region last September.
Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan on Monday declined to clarify whether Azerbaijan has agreed to uphold a 1991 declaration championed by Armenia in a draft peace treaty discussed by the two sides.
Armenia announced on Friday that it has signed another agreement with Azerbaijan laying out the principles of delineating the Armenian-Azerbaijani border.
Gagik Tsarukian, a wealthy businessman and politician, on Monday claimed to have addressed government concerns about his controversial project to erect a giant statue of Jesus Christ on a mountain near Yerevan.
In an apparent change of rhetoric, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian downplayed on Friday a constitutional reference to the 1990 declaration of Armenia’s independence which Azerbaijan calls the main hurdle to peace between the two South Caucasus nations.
Armenian authorities moved on Thursday to again imprison the mayor of the southeastern town of Goris who has refused to step down following the entry into force of a court ruling that bars him from holding public office.
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