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Armenian PM triggers early election a day after Biden’s genocide announcement

Armenian PM triggers early election a day after Biden’s genocide announcement

VLADIMIR SOLDATKIN ARMENIAN Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, who was swept to power in pro-democracy protests in 2018, triggered an early election on Sunday to try overcome criticism over his handling of last year's conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh. His resignation, which was expected, came a day after U.S. President Joe Biden said that massacres of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire in 1915 constituted genocide, a move welcomed by Armenians worldwide and condemned by Turkey. Pashinyan told Biden the symbolic decision was a matter of security to Armenia after the six week conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh, in which Turkey backed Armenia's neighbour Azerbaijan, where…
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Russia warns that Nagorno-Karabakh could become Islamist militant stronghold

Russia warns that Nagorno-Karabakh could become Islamist militant stronghold

NVARD HOVHANNISYAN and NALIA BAGIROVA  THE Kremlin issued a new appeal for an end to hostilities in and around Nagorno-Karabakh on Tuesday after Moscow's foreign intelligence chief said the mountain enclave could become a launchpad for Islamist militants to enter Russia. Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan Moscow expressed alarm after the deadliest fighting in more than 25 years between ethnic Armenian and Azeri forces entered the 10th day, though the French news agency AFP later said Armenia had offered concessions only if Azerbaijan was ready to do so. AFP gave no details of the offer it said had been made by…
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