Former Foreign Minister Ara Ayvazian and other retired senior diplomats on Monday strongly criticized the Armenian government’s foreign policy, saying that it has only added to grave national security threats facing the country.
A convoy of Russian military trucks entered Armenia from Nagorno-Karabakh on Monday as Russia continued to withdraw its peacekeeping troops from the depopulated region recaptured by Azerbaijan last September.
Residents of several Armenian communities in the northeastern Tavush province began protests late on Friday after the authorities of Armenia and Azerbaijan announced a border delimitation deal under which Baku will regain control of four formerly Azeri-populated villages in the area.
Armenia has completed an investigation into the April 10 skirmish at the border with Azerbaijan in which one Azerbaijani serviceman was wounded, concluding that the gunfire exchange occurred because of the violation of border service rules by several Armenian servicemen.