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Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev met in Brussels with European Council President Charles Michel ahead of a trilateral meeting between Aliyev, Michel, and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian scheduled to take place on July 15 amid tensions over a blockade by Azerbaijan of the Lachin Corridor.
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian says he hopes progress will be made on a peace treaty when he meets with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev in Brussels on July 15, with the president of the Council of the European Union, Charles Michel, in attendance.
Azerbaijan says it has suspended traffic through the Lachin Corridor, temporarily closing the only route linking Armenia to Nagorno-Karabakh after accusing the Armenian Red Cross of smuggling goods into the breakaway region.
A court in Azerbaijan has sentenced two Armenian soldiers to lengthy prison sentences for trespassing when they crossed into the country for allegedly attempting to supply a group of "saboteurs," a charge that has exacerbated already heightened tensions between the two countries.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on June 29 said hard work remains to be done to reach an agreement between Armenian and Azerbaijan after the conclusion of three days of talks in Washington between the two Caucasus nations’ foreign ministers.
De facto authorities in the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh say four ethnic Armenian soldiers were killed early on June 28 by Azerbaijani fire.
Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan on June 25 departed for Washington, where he will meet with his Azerbaijani counterpart, Jeyhun Bayramo, to discuss bilateral relations that will likely focus on the Armenian-backed breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh.
Moscow has called on Baku to fully unblock the Lachin Corridor, stressing that such actions violate the provisions of the declaration reached in November 2020 that ended a six-week war.
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian has accused Azerbaijan of "ethnic cleansing" with its continued blockade of the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region.
A law has been implemented in Armenia that bans tinted glass in cars that is less than 70 percent transparent. Drivers will be fined $65 if their windows don't comply. The government says the measure will improve road safety but drivers in the capital, Yerevan, say it leaves them exposed to heat.
Satenik Abrahamian used to dream of walking. After six surgeries, the 22-year-old, who has cerebral palsy, is taking her first steps toward her goal. But living in the remote village of Khnatsakh in Armenia’s southern Syunik Province offers additional challenges.
A joint investigation involving researchers from several Internet watchdogs and rights groups has revealed that at least a dozen public figures in Armenia, including two RFE/RL journalists based in Yerevan, as well as hundreds of phone numbers in Azerbaijan, were targeted with Pegasus spyware.
A year after Derenik Tepoyan, 64, was killed on a Russian firing range in the northwestern Armenian village of Vahramaberd, his family is looking for answers and wants measures taken to prevent further casualties.
Security personnel restricted access to the Armenian village of Sotk after reports of fresh gunfire exchanges along the Armenia-Azerbaijan border on May 11. Both sides blamed each other for the outburst of violence in which Azerbaijan said one of its soldiers was killed.
The United States on May 11 urged Armenia and Azerbaijan to seize peace initiatives after the two sides reported fresh gunfire exchanges along their common border.
The European Council says the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan have agreed to meet in Brussels on May 14 as they continue talks to work out a peace agreement.
In an interview with RFE/RL's Armenian Service in Prague on May 5, Pashinian said the gap between Baku and Yerevan's positions had shrunk only negligibly.
Armenia’s population is just below 3 million people, data from the census conducted in October shows.
A U.S.-hosted meeting of the foreign ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan has begun in Washington as part of an effort to quell tensions over a checkpoint that Baku recently set up on the only road leading to Nagorno-Karabakh.
Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan will arrive on a working visit to Washington on April 30, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Ani Badalian said.
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