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Monday, 16 March 2026

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Armenia * Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has announced plans to publicly present a list of weapons acquired under his tenure after 2022, citing high public interest. * On Monday, Armenian MPs, along with Parliamentary Speaker Alen Simonyan, will travel to Istanbul to participate in the 152nd Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union. * An Armenian court has prolonged the house arrest of Russian–Armenian tycoon Samvel Karapetyan for another month. Azerbaijan * Drones were seen flying over

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Friday, 13 March 2026

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Armenia * Armenia has refused Russian humanitarian aid intended for displaced Nagorno-Karabakh Armenians, according to Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova. According to Armenian fact-checkers, the Eurasia company involved in delivering the aid had previously been linked to interference in the 2025 Moldovan elections, including the transfer of electoral bribes, some reportedly in cryptocurrencies. * Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan received EU Commissioner for Internal Affairs

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Thursday, 12 March 2026

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Regional * In his speech at the EU Parliament, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said ‘the biggest problem’ on the path of Armenia’s EU integration was ‘the frozen state of the political dialogue between the EU and Georgia’. He also offered a road connection between Azerbaijan and its exclave Nakhchivan via Armenia ahead of the opening of the Trump Route. Armenia * While in Strasbourg, Pashinyan met the EU Parliament President Roberta Metsola. They discussed issues on bilateral cooperation, a

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Wednesday, 11 March 2026

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Armenia * Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan met French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris on Tuesday. They discussed ‘a wide range of’ bilateral issues, also ‘exchanged views on regional developments’. * Pashinyan also met with International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Rafael Grossi in Paris. They ‘exchanged views on ongoing programs in Armenia’s energy sector, small modular reactor technologies, and prospects for the development of nuclear energy’. * Also in Paris, Foreign Min

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Tuesday, 10 March 2026

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Armenia * Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has left for France, where he will participate in the Nuclear Energy Summit in Paris on Tuesday, and on Wednesday, will deliver a speech at the European Parliament. * On Monday, Pashinyan congratulated Iran’s newly elected Supreme Leader Seyyed Mojtaba Khamenei. * Armenia conveyed another Security Council meeting since the beginning of the Iran war on 28 February, and discussed ‘the situation in the region’. Azerbaijan * Approximately 30 tonnes of

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Monday, 9 March 2026

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Armenia * Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan has spoken with his Turkish counterpart Hakan Fidan about the Iran conflict. According to the Armenian readout, they ‘discussed the ongoing developments in the Middle East, expressing concern over the continuous escalation of the situation’. On the same day, Defence Minister Suren Papikyan spoke with his Georgian counterpart Irakli Chikovani. * A man has been arrested in Armenia after throwing a Molotov cocktail at the National Security Serv

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Friday, 6 March 2026

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Regional * Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze has expressed concern over the drone attack on Nakhchivan Airport and conveyed solidarity with Azerbaijan during a phone call with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev. Similarly, Georgia’s Foreign Ministry reported a phone conversation between Minister Maka Botchorishvili and her Azerbaijani counterpart Jeyhun Bayramov. Information about the calls was also released by the Azerbaijani side, with the difference that the Azerbaijani versions exp