Author: Serop Khederlarian

France’s foreign minister on Friday urged Azerbaijan to restore “unhindered movement” through the Lachin corridor, the only land link between Armenia and the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh enclave. Azerbaijan established a checkpoint at the entry of the corridor last weekend, a move that Armenia denounced as a breach of the latest ceasefire between the two arch-foes. France’s top diplomat Catherine Colonna said during a news conference in Yerevan that Armenia’s territorial integrity must be respected. Her Armenian counterpart Ararat Mirzoyan said for his part that free movement “should be restored”. Colonna arrived in Armenia after first visiting Baku, where she was hosted by Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev. “The…

The Russian Ministry of Defense is investigating the circumstances of the incident. This was stated by the spokesperson of the Russian foreign ministry, Maria Zakharova, at Thursday’s ministry press briefing, commenting on the wounding of two Russian servicemen in Syunik Province—in the sovereign territory of Armenia. According to her, there is a need to wait for the results of the investigation; and once these results are in, she will be able to give an assessment. When asked what Moscow’s response will be in this regard, the representative of the Russian MFA drew attention to the fact that this response will…

Bagrat Mikoyan has been appointed the person in charge of the office of the second President of Armenia, Robert Kocharyan, Armenian News-NEWS.am learns from Kocharyan’s Facebook page. Before that, Mikoyan held the position of coordinator of the aforesaid office. Viktor Soghomonyan, who was in charge of retired President Robert Kocharyan’s office since 2008, had announced his resignation in February.

There are separate tracks of negotiations: first, the opening of all transport communications in the region, second, delimitation and border security and the third, the treaty on establishment of peaceful relations between Armenia and Azerbaijan, and the third is the treaty on establishment of peaceful relations between Armenia and Azerbaijan. This was stated by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Armenia, Ararat Mirzoyan, in an interview given to the leading Egyptian AlQahera News Agency. “Regarding the connectivity issue, our position is clear: Armenia is ready to open all communications at the very moment when Azerbaijan accepts that the roads should…

Toivo Klaar, the European Union (EU) Special Representative for the South Caucasus and the Crisis in Georgia, reflected—at an event held at the Armenian embassy in Belgium on the occasion of the second anniversary of the Armenia-EU Comprehensive and Enhanced Partnership Agreement (CEPA)—on the normalization of Armenia-Azerbaijan relations “Thank you [Armenian] Ambassador Anna Aghadjanian for hosting celebration of the second anniversary of Armenia-EU CEPA. EU is committed to partnership with Armenia and to building a peaceful and prosperous South Caucasus. We support Armenia and Azerbaijan in achieving a lasting, comprehensive and fair peace,” Klaar wrote on Twitter.

Armenia is making active efforts to send UN and OSCE fact-finding missions to Nagorno-Karabakh and the Lachin corridor. Minister of Foreign Affairs Ararat Mirzoyan said this at the special meeting of the Standing Committee on Foreign Relations of the National Assembly of Armenia. In particular, he recalled that at the UN Security Council session last December, most of the UN member countries had announced the need to stop the illegal blockade of the Lachin corridor by Azerbaijan. “Also, they had recorded the need to send an international mission to the conflict zone,” the Armenian FM added.

Former Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating slammed Anthony Albanese’s government on Wednesday for a tripartite deal with the US and UK to build a nuclear submarine, calling it the Labor party’s worst international decision. “Every Labor Party branch member will wince when they realize that the party we all fight for is returning to our former colonial master, Britain, to find our security in Asia – two hundred and thirty-six years after Europeans first grabbed the continent from its Indigenous people,” Keating said at the National Press Club in Canberra, a transcript of which he posted on his website. On…

Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan on Friday received the newly appointed Ambassador of Georgia to Armenia, Giorgi Sharvashidze, the PM’s office informs Armenian News-NEWS.am. The Prime Minister congratulated the Georgian diplomat on the start of the mission and expressed confidence that he will promote the further development of Armenian-Georgian relations with his activities. Expressing his satisfaction with the Armenia-Georgia cooperation, Nikol Pashinyan highlighted further expansion of economic ties and initiatives aimed at fully realizing the existing potential. The newly appointed Ambassador of Georgia expressed gratitude for the kind words and assured that during his tenure, he will make maximum efforts to…

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan on Saturday visited the city of Ashtarak, from where he posted a video on his Facebook page, and explained what will be carried out as part of the academic city that is planned to be built in the area. “The academic city project shall start from the Hayfilm [studios’] area where the arts cluster will be located, with a high school of arts, a university of arts. We will have a modern concert hall. We will have universities in this area. But I want to emphasize that we will have the officers’ high school, the…

Lenice Divina Ramos weaves through knee-high weeds and scorched shrubs before halting abruptly near the slice of jungle where, not long ago, she found the charred carcass of her pet monkey. “The little fellow had no way to escape,” she says wistfully, waving toward the burnt-orange patch of vegetation that remains. “The flames came and burned everything. They burned the farm; they burned the forest, too.” A few months earlier, in mid-2022, at the height of the Amazon’s dry season, out-of-control flames swept through her 20-hectare (49-acre) plot in the Triunfo do Xingu reserve, in the Amazonian state of Pará.…