A senior pro-government lawmaker continued to demand on Thursday that speaker Alen Simonian allow him to present the Armenian parliament with the findings of a parliamentary inquiry into the 2020 war in Nagorno-Karabakh.
Parliament speaker Alen Simonian has unexpectedly blocked another senior pro-government lawmaker from releasing this week the findings of a parliamentary inquiry into the 2020 war in Nagorno-Karabakh.
Armenia is facing a shortage of military personnel, Deputy Defense Minister Arman Sargsian said on Tuesday less than a month after his ministry drafted legislation which could downsize the country’s army.
Armenian law-enforcement authorities claimed to have solved the killing of the opposition head of a major rural community just west of Yerevan after arresting two suspects over the weekend.
Opposition lawmakers condemned on Friday the Armenian government’s plans to cut its defense expenditures by more than 15 percent next year, saying that they represent yet another unilateral concession to Azerbaijan.
The Armenian government indicated at the weekend that it will not intervene to try to help Armenia’s leading food exporting company recover its heavy trucks intercepted in Russia nearly three weeks ago.
The head of Armenia’s National Security Service (NSS), Andranik Simonian, travelled to Baku on Friday to attend an international conference organized by the Azerbaijani government.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian on Thursday again declined to shed light on a U.S.-administered transit corridor through Armenia which he pledged to open for Azerbaijan during last month’s summit in Washington.
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.
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