ArmInfo.Armenia and Azerbaijan have started debate on the Armenia v Azerbaijan case at the International  Court of Justice. 

ArmInfo. Ethnographer Hranush Kharatyan gave harsh answer to Chairman of the Standing Parliamentary  Commttee on Defense and Security, MP from the ruling Civil Contract party Andranik Kocharyan, who today stated that it is necessary to clarify and record the names of all victims of the Armenian Genocide  in the Ottoman Empire.  "In the end, you need to have a list of all the victims. What if there are more or less than 1.5 million, as is commonly believed," Kocharyan explained, assuring that this initiative is also important for building relations with Turkey.

ArmInfo.The Yerevan Municipality , in particular Mayor Tigran Avinyan, announced the uncompromisingness of the city authorities on the issue of illegal construction in the capital. In particular, since last year, led by Avinyan, work has been actively carried out in the city to eliminate illegal buildings.

ArmInfo. Long-term human rights concerns persisted in Azerbaijan in 2023. The government severely restricted freedoms of expression, assembly, and association. This is stated in the report of the Human Rights Watch  as part of its review of the human rights situation in the world in the Azerbaijan section. 

ArmInfo. The climate background in Armenia will have negative consequences in the context of water resources. This was stated during a press conference on December 29 by director of the Hydrometeorology and Monitoring Center SNCO of the Ministry of Environment  of Armenia Levon Azizyan.

ArmInfo.The Lemkin Institue of Genocide Prevention has issued the following statement: 

ArmInfo.The Azerbaijani authorities confiscated the Armenian passports of those who remained  in Artsakh and the l aren't allowed to speak to their loved ones without being monitored. American journalist Lindsey Snell wrote on her X (formerly Twitter).

ArmInfo.International leaders are applying double standards and accepting a dictatorial  regime and disregarding the fate of 30,000 children, former state minister of Artsakh Ruben Vardnanyan said in an interview with France 24 as he commented on the situation in Stepanakert in the wake of  Azerbaijan's aggression. 

ArmInfo. The strategic mistakes of the Armenian authorities after the 44-day Azerbaijani  aggression against Artsakh in the fall of 2020 led to the territorial losses of the RA after the signing of the trilateral ceasefire declaration, reduced the Armenian factor to zero not only in the process of resolving the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, but also in the course of three-vector meetings initiated by Moscow, Brussels and  Washington regarding relations with Azerbaijan. This is stated in the statement of the Luys Foundation.

ArmInfo. In an interview with Caucasus Watch, former state minister of Artsakh Ruben Vardanyan  spoke of three scenarios of resolving the crisis round Artsakh

ArmInfo. "We have heard dozens,  hundreds, even thousands of different appeals in the last two and a  half years, as well as during the 30-year occupation," Azerbaijan's  Minister of Foreign Affairs Jeyhun Bayramov told journalists,  commenting on the statement by Maria Zakharova, the head of the press  service of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia, regarding the  Lachin road, APA reports.

ArmInfo. Yerevan neither verbally  nor in writing assumed the obligation to open a corridor through its  territory, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan once again stated at a  meeting of the country's Cabinet of Ministers on July 6.  Pashinyan  pointed out that Baku continues to accuse Yerevan of failing to  comply with some agreements on ensuring transport communications  across its territory, "while making some doubtful corridor comments."  "We have to repeat that Armenia has never, either verbally or in  writing, assumed corridor obligations, and will never accept such  interpretations," Pashinyan emphasized. According to him, everyone  can verify this by reading the tripartite statement of November 9,  2020.

ArmInfo.. On March 2, RA NA Vice President, Head of Armenia-India Friendship Group Hakob Arshakyan  delivered a speech in India-Armenia Dialogue within the framework of the 8th Edition of Raisina Dialogue 2023 conference in Delhi.

ArmInfo. The grave of two people, probably a couple - a man and a woman, in which the remains of three gold necklaces were discovered, was examined in Metsamor in  Armenia by a Polish-Armenian team of archaeologists. It comes from  the times when Ramesses II ruled Egypt.

ArmInfo.The situation in the South Caucasus was on the agenda of the talks between the heads of the foreign ministries of Armenia and Germany. German Foreign  Minister Annalena Charlotte Alma Baerbock stated on February 7 at a  joint press conference with RA Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan.

ArmInfo.U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken had an opportunity today to speak to the leader of Armenia, and is expected to have an opportunity in the coming days to  speak to President Aliyev, Ned Price, Spokesperson for the U.S.  Department of State, told a news briefing on Wednesday. 

ArmInfo. The current government, which divided the nation, looking for enemies among its own nation, surrendered Artsakh, humiliated the national dignity of  the people, today blames the opposition for all mortal sins.  Secretary of the opposition faction <Armenia> Artsvik Minasyan stated  this on December 20 from the rostrum of the National Assembly of the  Republic of Armenia.

ArmInfo.Below is a statement by U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken before his  meeting with the Armenian and Azerbaijani FMs, Ararat Mirzoyan and  Jeyhun Bayramov at Blair House.

ArmInfo.Ambassador Erin Elizabeth McKee, the Assistant Administrator (AA) for USAID's Bureau of Europe and Eurasia, arrived is on a visit to Armenia October  30-November 2 as part of a broader trip to the South Caucasus region,  USAID/Armenia reports in a Facebook post. 

ArmInfo.On September 7, on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Armenia and Japan, Deputy Foreign  Minister of the Republic of Armenia Vahe Gevorgyan met with  Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Japan to Armenia  Fukushima Masanori.