Armenia

YEREVAN, Armenia (AP) — In Iran, the urgency of getting vaccinated against COVID-19 is growing by the day.

A crush of new cases fueled by the fast-spreading delta variant has threatened to overwhelm Iranian hospitals with breathless patients too numerous to handle. But as deaths mount, and the sense swells that protection for most citizens remains far-off, thousands of desperate Iranians are taking matters into their own hands: They’re flocking to neighboring Armenia.

YEREVAN, Armenia (AP) — Results released Monday showed that the party of Armenia’s acting Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan won snap parliamentary elections which he called to ease anger over a peace deal he signed with Azerbaijan.

With all precincts counted, Pashinyan’s Civil Contract party won 53.9% of the vote. A bloc led by former President Robert Kocharyan was in a distant second place with about 21%, the election commission said Monday.

YEREVAN, Armenia (AP) — Armenians are voting Sunday in a national election after months of tensions over last year’s defeat in fighting against Azerbaijan over the separatist region of Nagorno-Karabakh.

The snap parliamentary election was called by Acting Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan in a bid to resolve public anger over the peace deal he signed in November that triggered months of protests demanding his resignation. He stepped down from the premiership as required by law to allow the election to take place but remains the country’s leader.

YEREVAN, Armenia (AP) — Armenia’s leader is facing a tough challenge at the polls after a humiliating defeat for Armenian forces in last year’s fighting with Azerbaijan over the separatist region of Nagorno-Karabakh.

Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan called the early election for Sunday, seeking to assuage public anger over the peace deal he signed in November that triggered months of protests demanding his resignation.

YEREVAN, June 13. /TASS/: The Armenian authorities handed over only a fraction of the maps with minefields that passed over to Baku’s control and are ready for further discussions, acting Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said in a speech broadcast on his Facebook on Sunday.

"Some opposition circles have started to claim that minefield maps have been transferred to Azerbaijan and that the return of all our prisoners-of-war could have been ensured," the acting prime minister said in the town of Yeghvard in the Kotyak province in central Armenia.

YEREVAN, May 23. /TASS/: Armenia should boost its military cooperation with Russia and ask Moscow to deploy its military contingent to the Syunik Province bordering on Azerbaijan, MP Gevorg Gorgisyan told a session of the opposition’s Bright Armenia party on Sunday.

"We should keep deepening [cooperation] in the security field with Russia and also make every effort to create Russia’s military contingent in Syunik to counter Azerbaijani-Turkish aggression," Gorgisyan said.

YEREVAN, May 21. /TASS/: Armenia’s foreign ministry has rejected Azerbaijan’s statement about disputed territories as a false agenda.

"It is a blatant violation of international law to set conditions with the use of force or a threat of its use. Armenia rejects the false agenda of the so-called disputed territories, which may become a dangerous precedent to justify the use of force in other regions," Armenian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Anna Nagdalyan said on Friday.

YEREVAN, May 16. /TASS/: The situation in the Syunik and Gegharkunik Provinces on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border is unsolved and Azerbaijan’s forces still remain there, the Armenian Defense Ministry stated on Sunday.

(Reuters) --- Armenia said on Friday that Azerbaijan had failed to fulfil a promise in full to withdraw troops that had crossed the border in a disputed incident, and that it had sought Russia's military help.

Six months after the worst fighting in decades between Azeri and ethnic Armenian forces, the border incident this week has demonstrated the fragility of a Russian-brokered ceasefire that halted the conflict.

YEREVAN, May 6. /TASS/: Any statements running counter to the agreements between the Russian, Azerbaijani and Armenian leaders on unblocking economic ties in Nagorno-Karabakh cannot be viewed as an alternative to the current agreement, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Thursday commenting on Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev’s remark on creating the Zangezur corridor.