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Pashinyan calls for ‘unification’ between Nagorno-Karabakh and Armenia

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Nikol Pashinyan (centre) in Stepanakert with Armenian Par­lia­men­tary Speaker Ararat Mirzoyan (left) and the President of Nagorno-Karabakh, Bako Sahakyan (right) (official photo)

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has called for ‘uni­fi­ca­tion’ between Nagorno-Karabakh and Armenia, in a wide-ranging speech that was delivered amidst an atmos­phere of tension between author­i­ties in Yerevan and Stepanakert. [Read more…]

Armenia abstains from voting against Georgian IDP resolution at UN for first time

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(OC Media)

Armenia has abstained from voting on a UN res­o­lu­tion calling for the return of IDPs to Abkhazia and South Ossetia for the first time since 2008, when the res­o­lu­tion was first intro­duced. Armenia had pre­vi­ous­ly always voted against the res­o­lu­tion in the annual votes at the UN General Assembly. [Read more…]

Libraries full of hate: from Azerbaijan to Georgia

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Marneuli Public Library (Rahim Shaliyev /OC Media)

Azer­bai­jan has been supplying Georgian libraries with books con­tain­ing hate speech against Armenians. While the libraries don’t see them as a problem, some Azer­bai­jani Georgians fear they might help plant the seeds of ethnic tension.

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Pashinyan instigates protests outside Armenian courts calling for transitional justice

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Pro­test­ers blocking the entrance of a court in Yerevan on 20 May. (Knar Khudoyan / OC Media)

Pro­test­ers gathered outside courts across Armenia on Monday after Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan called for sup­port­ers to block the entrances, describ­ing the courts as ‘puppets’ of the former gov­ern­ment. [Read more…]

Interview | Gevorg Gorgisyan: ‘We will prevent the authorities from turning away from the values of the revolution’

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Gevorg Gorgisyan (Armlur.am)

Reflect­ing on the time since snap par­lia­men­tary elections last December in which the Bright Armenia Party took 18 seats, the secretary of the party’s par­lia­men­tary faction, Gevorg Gorgisyan, says their mission has been and remains to keep the ruling party in check and to make them deliver on the promises of the Velvet Rev­o­lu­tion. [Read more…]

Armenia hopes for Nagorno-Karabakh’s return to the negotiating table

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Ilham Aliyev (left) with Nikol Pashinyan at World Economic Forum in Davos, January 2019. (Still from official video)

Armenian PM Nikol Pashinyan and Azer­bai­jani President Ilham Aliyev will meet offi­cial­ly this Friday. In Armenia, talk of progress in the peace process has largely focused on the inclusion of Nagorno-Karabakh in future nego­ti­a­tions. [Read more…]

Proposals to include Nagorno-Karabakh in peace talks raise red flags in Azerbaijan

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Nikol Pashinyan (left) and Ilham Aliyev on an informal meeting in Davost at World Economic Forum in January. (primeminister.am)

Ahead of a meeting between the Armenian PM Nikol Pashinyan and Azer­bai­jani President Ilham Aliyev this Friday, Azer­bai­jani analysts and politi­cians share their hopes and concerns over the rekindled dialogue between Armenia and Azer­bai­jan over the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.

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Interview | De Waal: ‘Is it time to come up with a bigger offer to Abkhazia?’

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Thomas de Waal is a senior fellow at Carnegie Europe, a London-based think tank.

Thomas de Waal, senior fellow at Carnegie Europe and a prolific writer on the South Caucasus recently sat down with OC Media. He discussed democracy in Abkhazia and the inter­na­tion­al community’s role there, and the recent thaw in relations between Armenia and Azer­bai­jan.

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Opinion | Accepting our past is the only way we can move forward

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Javid Agha is an Ankara-based writer and social media observer focusing on Armenia and Azer­bai­jan, whose writing has been featured across the web including on the BBC. He is editor of Azer­bai­jani art and culture platform, VarYox.

In Azer­bai­jan, as in Armenia, remem­brance of the victims of past atroc­i­ties often takes on a one-sided nature. Despite attempts to twist and politi­cise such events to serve nation­al­ist causes, a more com­pas­sion­ate approach is needed to move forward, and a remem­brance that above all, innocent victims are always sacred.

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