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Armenia on Friday condemned Israel’s overnight strikes on nuclear facilities and military sites across neighboring Iran and called for an immediate to the military action.
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian will visit Turkey on Friday at the invitation of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, parliament speaker Alen Simonian confirmed on Tuesday.
Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan telephoned his Iranian counterpart Abbas Araghchi on Saturday one day after the start of Israeli strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities and military sites condemned by Armenia.
A U.S. lawyer representing Armenian businessman and philanthropist Ruben Vardanyan warned on Thursday that he and 22 other Armenians will remain imprisoned in Azerbaijan unless Yerevan presses for their release in peace talks with Baku.
Former President Levon Ter-Petrosian on Thursday repeated his strong condemnation of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s efforts to depose Catholicos Garegin II and expressed confidence that they will end in failure.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian insisted that his administration did not embezzle or misuse $100 million controversially received from a pan-Armenian charity in 2020 as he continued to reject on Thursday corruption allegations made by his political foes.
Hovik Abrahamian, who served as Armenia’s prime minister from 2014-2016, was arrested on Friday nearly seven years after law-enforcement authorities first brought corruption charges against him.
Following an opposition uproar, the Armenian parliament threw out on Tuesday a controversial government-backed bill that would sharply shorten compulsory military service for men paying the state hefty sums.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian said on Friday that he is not seeking the withdrawal of Russian troops from Armenia despite aiming for the country’s eventual membership in the European Union.
Despite the large-scale military conflict with Israel, Iran remains committed to neighboring Armenia’s territorial integrity and opposed to an Azerbaijani land corridor that would pass through it, the Iranian ambassador in Yerevan said on Tuesday.
Azerbaijan may take advantage of the military conflict between Iran and Israel to invade Armenia in a bid to open a land corridor to its Nakhichevan exclave, according to Armenian opposition leaders.
An unusually powerful storm swept through northwestern Armenia over the weekend, destroying crops, blowing away roofs, uprooting trees and causing power outages in many local communities.
Armenian security services moved to arrest Russian-Armenian billionaire Samvel Karapetian on Tuesday hours after he strongly condemned Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s campaign against the top clergy of the Armenian Apostolic Church.
The conflict between Iran and Israel has disrupted cargo shipments to and from Armenia carried through Iranian territory, Armenian Economy Minister Gevorg Papoyan said on Monday.
