Heghine Buniatyan has been a senior editor with RFE/RL’s Armenian Service since June 2016. She has previously served as the editor-in-chief of the Yerevan bureau, a broadcaster, and as the director of the Maxliberty Youth Program.
Azerbaijan has not yet accepted Armenia’s counterproposals regarding the agenda of official negotiations on a peace treaty between the two South Caucasus states, according to Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan.
The European Union plans to organize more negotiations between Armenia and Azerbaijan to follow up on understandings reached by their leaders in Brussels on Wednesday, according to a senior EU diplomat.
European Council President Charles Michel will host fresh talks between the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan in Brussels next week, it was announced on Wednesday.
Opposition lawmakers expressed concern on Tuesday over the Armenian government’s stated readiness to negotiate a comprehensive “peace treaty” with Azerbaijan amid heightened tensions in Nagorno-Karabakh.
Russia has reiterated that the U.S., Russian and French mediators co-heading the OSCE Minsk Group should be able to resume their visits to Nagorno-Karabakh as part of their peace efforts.
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev will meet in Brussels on Tuesday for talks hosted by European Council President Charles Michel, a senior European Union official said on Monday.
A trilateral meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev will take place in Sochi on November 26, the Kremlin said on Tuesday.
The leaders of Armenia and Belarus have discussed “problematic issues” within the framework of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), official Minsk reported on Monday.
In a second telephone conversation with Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian this week Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday again discussed agreements on Nagorno-Karabakh and the situation in the South Caucasus, the Kremlin said.
New details of an announced meeting between the Armenian and Azerbaijani leaders in Brussels next month have been revealed to RFE/RL.
Russian President Vladimir Putin struck an optimistic note speaking about prospects of an Armenian-Azerbaijani settlement as he addressed top diplomats at a meeting in Moscow on Thursday.
Azerbaijani forces have invaded the territory of Armenia in one of the eastern sections of the border, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian said during a meeting of the country’s Security Council on Monday.
The U.S. State Department has condemned the killing of an ethnic Armenian resident of Nagorno-Karabakh committed just outside the Azerbaijani-controlled town of Shushi (Shusha) on Monday.
The Iranian minister of roads and urban development indicated on Thursday Iran will fully restore soon its transport links with neighboring Armenia which have been disrupted by an Azerbaijani checkpoint setup on the main road connecting the two states.
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday that Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian has offered to meet with him for talks on improving Turkish-Armenian relations.
Iran hopes that border disputes between Armenia and Azerbaijan, including the latest one over a road section in the Armenian province of Syunik, will be resolved in a peaceful atmosphere without jeopardizing commercial ties in the region.
Despite continuing tensions on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border and within Nagorno-Karabakh, deputy prime ministers of Armenia, Azerbaijan and Russia have resumed the work of their trilateral working group dealing with issues of unblocking transport links in the region.
Russia will continue to help Armenia reform and modernize its armed forces, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu told his visiting Armenian counterpart Arshak Karapetian on Wednesday.
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has again claimed that Azerbaijan resolved the conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh during last year’s war and will not hold talks with Armenia on the territory’s status.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has praised the current state of Russia’s relationship with Armenia, speaking of unprecedented “political dialogue” between the two states.
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