Tag: Armenia

Armenian, Azerbaijani Leaders Hold ‘Significant’ Talks (RFE RL)

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev held “significant” EU-mediated talks in Brussels, European Council President Charles Michel said. The trilateral meeting...

Armenia, Turkey To Appoint Special Envoys In Bid To Normalize Ties (RFE RL)

Neighbors Turkey and Armenia have announced that they will appoint special envoys on mending relations that have been strained for decades. Yerevan and Ankara have...

Reports Of Shelling As Tensions Between Armenia And Azerbaijan Appear To Boil Over (RFE RL)

Azerbaijan and Armenia have accused each other of violating a cease-fire along their shared border as lingering tensions following their war last year over...

Armenia says Azerbaijan intensively shelling its military positions in one region – TASS (Reuters)

Armenia's Defence Ministry said on Thursday that Azerbaijan had begun intensively shelling its military positions in Armenia's Gegharkunik province, the TASS news agency reported. Azerbaijan...

In Armenia, why are just 15 percent fully vaccinated? (Liz Cookman, Al Jazeera)

Two months after Armenia introduced strict COVID-19 restrictions that made vaccinations near-mandatory amid record death rates, daily case numbers have dropped significantly, but the country is...

Azerbaijan Returns Captured Armenian Soldiers In Exchange For Mine Maps (RFE RL)

Azerbaijan has freed 10 Armenian soldiers captured during deadly border clashes last month. In return, Armenia handed over maps detailing the location minefields in the...

Armenia, Azerbaijan Pledge Progress After Putin Hosts Talks On Borders, Transit, Trade (RFE RL)

The leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan have expressed a willingness toward progress on border delimitation and improving economic and transport links after Russian President...

Moscow Says It’s Ready To Help Armenia, Turkey Normalize Relations (RFE RL)

Russia says it is prepared to mediate efforts to repair relations between Armenia and Turkey following reports earlier this week of a request by...

Armenian, Azerbaijani Leaders To Meet In Brussels Mid-December: EU (RFE RL)

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev will meet in Brussels next month to discuss border clashes and advancing diplomacy, the...

Armenia and Azerbaijan agree ceasefire after border clash, Armenian Defense Ministry says (CNN)

Armenia and Azerbaijan agreed on Tuesday to a ceasefire at their border, the Armenian Defense Ministry said, after Russia urged them to step back...

Skirmishes Reported At Armenian-Azerbaijani Border After Bombing Incident (Suren Musayelyan, RFE RL)

Armenia and Azerbaijan have accused each other of cease-fire violations along their border, hours after three Azerbaijani soldiers were reportedly wounded by an explosive...

Recognizing the One-Year Anniversary of the Ceasefire Declaration Between Armenia and Azerbaijan (US Department of State)

This week, the United States and the international community recognize the one-year anniversary of the ceasefire declaration that ended 44 days of intense fighting...

‘Zangezur Corridor’ Closer to Realization as Armenia Readies to Normalize Relations With Turkey and Azerbaijan (Vasif Huseynov, The Jamestown Foundation)

On October 15, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian, in an online summit of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), declared his country’s readiness to...

Azerbaijan accuses Armenia of ‘ethnic cleansing’ at UN court (Al Jazeera)

Azerbaijan has gone to the UN top court to accuse Armenia of laying landmines in Nagorno-Karabakh as part of a campaign of “ethnic cleansing”,...

Armenia accuses Azerbaijan of ethnic hatred at UN court (Al Jazeera)

Armenia has told judges at the International Court of Justice in The Hague that Azerbaijan promotes ethnic hatred against Armenians and asked the court...

Russian, Azerbaijani, Armenian top diplomats discuss implementation of Karabakh agreements (TASS)

The trilateral meeting of Foreign Ministers of Russia, Azerbaijan and Armenia took place in Minsk Thursday with Russia’s mediation, Russian Foreign Ministry said in...