Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian urged Armenians to “overcome the trauma” of their ethnic kin massacred by the Ottoman Turks and stop yearning for their “lost homeland” as they marked the 109th anniversary of the genocide on Wednesday.
Law-enforcement authorities could bring criminal charges against over a dozen men arrested during ongoing protests in northern Tavush region against the Armenian government’s decision to hand over four contested border areas to Azerbaijan.
Armenia must change its constitution and open an extraterritorial corridor to the Nakhichevan exclave if it wants to make peace with Azerbaijan, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said on Tuesday.
Hundreds of residents of border villages in Armenia’s northern Tavush province blocked a key national highway for the third consecutive day on Monday in protest against the Armenian government’s decision to hand over four adjacent areas to Azerbaijan.
Senior U.S. and European Union diplomats discussed with Armenia’s leaders on Monday the implementation of their controversial border delimitation agreement with Azerbaijan hailed by Western powers.