
US lobbying firm that cut ties with Turkey amid pressure hired by Armenia
Armenia will pay the company $50,000 a month to advocate on the country’s behalf in the US Congress.
Armenia will pay the company $50,000 a month to advocate on the country’s behalf in the US Congress.
During the forum, Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan met with his Turkish and Azerbaijani counterparts.
The Armenian border crossing point of Margara (Alijan) on the border with Turkey was opened on 21 March for a ten-day period.
The checkpoint was previously opened in 2023 in order for Armenia to send humanitarian aid to Turkey following the Turkey–Syria earthquake.
During the interview, Pashinyan discussed Armenia–Turkey relations and the Armenia–Azerbaijan peace negotiations.
Pashinyan’s government has previously been accused of promoting Armenian Genocide denial.
The chair of the Turkish Parliament’s Foreign Relations Committee has called on Armenia to change its constitution and to open the ‘Zangezur corridor’ — a proposal to link mainland Azerbaijan to its exclave of Nakhchivan. The calls were made by the Turkish Parliament’s Foreign Relations Committee Chair, Fuat Oktay, on Saturday. He expressed his country’s readiness to normalise relations with Armenia, adding that they will ‘do it together with Azerbaijan’. He added that Ankara ‘fully suppor