Armenia has completed an investigation into the April 10 skirmish at the border with Azerbaijan in which one Azerbaijani serviceman was wounded, concluding that the gunfire exchange occurred because of the violation of border service rules by several Armenian servicemen.
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian has again signaled Yerevan’s readiness to withdraw from four formerly Azeri-populated villages at the northeastern border with Azerbaijan that used to be part of Soviet Azerbaijan, but have been under Armenia’s military control since the early 1990s.
Members of opposition factions in the Armenian parliament said their concerns over negotiations with Azerbaijan on border delimitation issues were not allayed by government officials after a special session held upon their initiative on Tuesday.
A senior Armenian official conducting talks with Azerbaijan on border issues has denied there a final decision on starting the demarcation process in Tavush.
Further economic aid pledged by the United States and the European Union will be nowhere near enough to ease Armenia’s economic dependence on Russia, an Armenian opposition parliamentarian insisted on Friday.
The main opposition Hayastan alliance demanded on Tuesday that the Armenian parliament debate Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s controversial plans to hand over disputed border areas to Azerbaijan.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian questioned at the weekend Azerbaijan’s stated respect for Armenia’s territorial integrity while reaffirming his readiness to unilaterally hand over some of the contested border areas to Baku.
Russian troops and border guards stationed in Armenia are “the only real guarantee” of the country’s sovereignty, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Friday.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian welcomed on Thursday a European Parliament resolution construed by him as an endorsement of his administration’s possible decision to seek Armenia’s membership in the European Union.
Armenia will leave the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) if its lingering security concerns are not addressed by the Russian-led military alliance, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian warned on Tuesday.
Just days after the latest round of talks on delimiting the Armenian-Azerbaijani borer, Azerbaijan demanded at the weekend that Armenia immediately and unconditionally withdraw from four border villages.
Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan indicated on Thursday that he and his Azerbaijani counterpart Jeyhun Bayramov did not make significant progress towards an Armenian-Azerbaijani peace treaty during two-day talks held in Berlin last week.
Armenian prosecutors have refused to launch a formal criminal investigation into a recent report that questioned the legality of lavish campaign donations received by the ruling Civil Contract party ahead of last September’s municipal elections in Yerevan.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian signaled on Wednesday his readiness to pull Armenia out of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), saying that the Russian-led military alliance is becoming a security threat to his country.
Parliament speaker Alen Simonian on Tuesday criticized Russian border guards and military personnel deployed in Armenia, saying that they do not protect his country against Azerbaijani attacks.
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy is planning to visit Armenia next week amid the South Caucasus country’s mounting tensions with Russia, a diplomatic source told RFE/RL’s Armenian Service.
Armenia and Azerbaijan are discussing the date and venue of an upcoming meeting of their foreign ministers, the Armenian Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday.
A senior Armenian lawmaker on Friday hit back at a top Russian diplomat who warned that Armenia will risk losing its independence if it keeps moving away from Russia and the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO).
Nagorno-Karabakh’s human rights ombudsman dismissed on Thursday Russia’s offers to help Karabakh Armenians displaced by last September’s Azerbaijani military offensive return to their homeland.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian has said that his Civil Contract party operates transparently in response to a report accusing it of receiving campaign donations of “dubious origin” ahead of last September’s municipal elections in Yerevan.
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