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Armenia will leave a Russia-led military alliance, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan confirmed on June 12, accusing members of the bloc of plotting with bitter rival Azerbaijan to start a war against them. Pashinyan has for months accused the Kremlin’s Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) of...

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said on June 12 that a peace treaty with Azerbaijan was close to completion, but that his country would not accept Baku’s demands that it change its constitution. After Pashinyan made the comments, clashes broke out between police and demonstrators, the latest...

Large protests calling on Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan to resign have extended into a second day following a demonstration on June 9. Following a rally featuring thousands and an overnight vigil in pouring rain, hundreds of protesters rallied in front of Armenia’s parliament in Yerevan on...

In a case brought by Yerevan against its Caucus neighbor and rival over alleged discrimination and ethnic cleansing, lawyers for Armenia on April 16 told the International Court of Justice (ICJ) that Baku is “erasing all traces of ethnic Armenians’ presence” in the contested territory. The two...

Armenia insisted on April 16 that the top United Nations court has jurisdiction to hear its case accusing Azerbaijan of breaching an international convention that aims to stamp out racial discrimination. At a preliminary hearing on April 15, Azerbaijan had urged the International Court of Justice to...

The Hague-based court in March 2023 issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin over the war in Ukraine and the alleged illegal deportation of children to Russia. Yerevan is now obligated to arrest the Russian leader if he sets foot on its territory. "The ICC Rome Statute...

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said on January 29 that he has proposed the signing of a non-aggression pact to Azerbaijan, pending a comprehensive peace treaty between the arch-foe Caucasus neighbors. Yerevan and Baku have fought two wars—in 2020 and in the 1990s—over the disputed Nagorno...

Armenia and Azerbaijan have said they will exchange prisoners of war and work toward normalizing their relations, in a move welcomed by the European Union and the United States. The two countries have been locked in a decades-long conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh, which Azerbaijan reclaimed after a...

Germany's foreign minister, Annalena Baerbock, was in Armenia to discuss tensions in the Nagorno-Karabakh region, which Azerbaijan took control of in September. She advocated launching a new round of negotiations. The German Foreign Minister traveled to the southern Caucasus on Friday, beginning her...

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said he's willing to sign a peace treaty with Azerbaijan by the end of the year. "We must move steadily towards peace," Pashinyan said during an address to the European Parliament on October 17. "To do this, political will is necessary, and I have that...