Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s political team has not yet made a final decision on whether to try to remove from Armenia’s constitution any reference to a 1990 declaration of independence resented by Azerbaijan, a senior lawmaker said on Tuesday.
Opposition leaders accused Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian on Tuesday of being ready to make another concession to Azerbaijan and Turkey after one of his top political allies called for a change of Armenia’s national anthem and coat of arms.
Armenia is ready to sign a nonaggression pact with Azerbaijan and give other “guarantees” to Baku, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian said on Sunday.
Azerbaijan dismissed on Friday Armenia’s decision to provide it with more maps of Armenian minefields in and around Nagorno-Karabakh made in response to Azerbaijani demands for such information.
Opposition leaders and other critics of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian claim that he is seeking to enact a new constitution for Armenia at the behest of Azerbaijan.
Armenia’s prime minister and their cabinet should no longer necessarily enjoy the backing of the parliamentary majority, according to constitutional reform proposed by the country’s Minsitry of Justice.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian expressed hope on Wednesday that Azerbaijan is committed to making peace with Armenia, responding to fresh opposition claims that his far-reaching concessions to Baku have only created more security threats to his country.
After repeated delays, Russia has delivered to Armenia the first batch of weapons envisaged by bilateral defense contracts signed after the 2020 war in Nagorno-Karabakh, according to senior Armenian lawmakers.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian has accused Azerbaijan of undermining prospects for an Armenian-Azerbaijani peace accord with effective territorial claims to Armenia.
The Iranian ambassador in Yerevan, Mehdi Sobhani, on Thursday reaffirmed Iran’s strong support for Armenia’s territorial integrity, saying that any violation of it is unacceptable to Tehran.
A court in Yerevan has extended by three more months the arrest of Armen Ashotian, a prominent opposition politician facing what he calls politically motivated charges, ignoring an appeal for his release signed by other oppositionists.
Armenia has received no “concrete” proposal yet from Azerbaijan to hold direct negotiations at the border between the two countries, a senior Armenian lawmaker insisted on Monday.
A major Armenian opposition group on Tuesday joined Nagorno-Karabakh’s president in saying that his September 28 decree disbanding the self-proclaimed Nagorno-Karabakh Republic and its government bodies is null and void.
Armenia’s ruling party lashed out at Nagorno-Karabakh’s exiled president at the weekend after it emerged that he declared null and void his September 28 decree liquidating the self-proclaimed Nagorno-Karabakh Republic.
Samvel Shahramanian has annulled his September 28 decision to liquidate the self-proclaimed Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, an aide to the exiled Karabakh president revealed on Friday.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian on Thursday reaffirmed Armenia’s readiness to establish transport links with neighboring Azerbaijan and Turkey while insisting that all railways and roads passing through Armenian territory must be under Yerevan’s full control.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian insisted on Wednesday that his job is to secure Armenia’s future as he was pressed by an opposition leader to explain his policy on Nagorno-Karabakh following its depopulation and capture by Azerbaijan.
Armenia and Azerbaijan have accused each other of dragging feet on a bilateral peace treaty sought by the international community.
Samvel Shahramanian, Nagorno-Karabakh’s exiled president, on Thursday denied through a spokesman a political rival’s claims that he is negotiating with Azerbaijan’s government.
The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict is over and Armenia should not prioritize the quick return of the recently displaced Karabakh Armenians to their homes in peace talks with Azerbaijan, parliament speaker Alen Simonian said on Tuesday.
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