Politics

Artsakh’s State Minister Ruben Vardanyan talks about the difficult humanitarian situation caused by the Azerbaijani blockage of the Lachin corridor in a television interview with France 24. Below is the transcript of the interview. France 24: Mr. Vardanyan, thank you for being with us at France 24. First of all, I would like ...

Artsakh’s (Nagorno-Karabakh) State Minister Ruben Vardanyan claims the Artsakh Armenians have been left with three options amid the ongoing Azerbaijani blockade. “First, we give in and sooner or later integrate into Azerbaijan,” he said, addressing a massive rally in Stepanakert on Sunday. “Second, we get out of here. Third, w...

Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) today delivered remarks on the Senate Floor following Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s threatened missile strike on Athens, Greece. Menendez called on the United States and the international community to take concrete steps to hold Erdogan to account for ...

Students staged fresh protests in Yerevan on Monday to express support to Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) still blocked by Azerbaijan. The blockade began on 12 December, when a group of so-called Azerbaijani “eco activists” stopped traffic on the sole road connecting Artsakh to Armenia, known as the Lachin corridor, citing “illegal...

Russia is interested in securing a peace treaty between Armenia and Azerbaijan, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told a meeting with his Azerbaijani counterpart Jeyhun Bayramov in Moscow on Monday, TASS reported. "We are interested in promoting the unblocking of transport links, delimitation of the border, signing of a p...

ARF Armenia Chair Ishkhan Saghatelyan, an MP representing the main opposition Hayastan faction in the Armenian parliament, claims his family members and other relatives have been facing strong pressure from the authorities recently. “It includes criminal cases, raids and interrogations,” he told a briefing in the parliament on...

The US Co-chair of the OSCE Minsk Group, the US representative in the Caucasus negotiations, Philip Reeker, will leave Azerbaijan for Tbilisi, from where will arrive in Yerevan, ARMENPRESS reports Reeker announced in his video message. "The United States supports the direct dialogue between Armenia and Azerbaijan and calls to ma...

MP Eduard Aghajanyan, the head of Armenia’s parliamentary delegation to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), addressed the autumn meeting of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly on Friday. In his speech, the deputy called attention to the Azerbaijani invasion of sovereign Armenian territory starting from...

Opposition Hayastan bloc MP Lilit Galstyan, a member of Armenia’s delegation to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), addressed the 20th autumn meeting of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly on Friday. Her full statement is provided below. "Dear colleagues, Today, rightfully, the main concern of the Int...

Head of Armenia’s parliamentary delegation, Chairman of the Parliament’s Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs Eduard Aghajanyan delivered remarks during the autumn meeting of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, the Parliament’s press service said. “Starting from May 12, 2021, Azerbaijan has started a process of crawling invasion o...