Azerbaijan has shown its ambitions extend to sovereign territory in Armenia: the seizure of the so-called Zangezur corridor in southern Armenia, in the region of Syunik.

Armenian Security Council Secretary Armen Grigoryan has expressed concern over the latest statements made by Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev regarding Armenia. Speaking to reporters on Thursday, Grigoryan reaffirmed Armenia's commitment to the peace agenda, noting that Yerevan was awaiting a response to its latest peace proposals to Baku.

At a meeting with his Armenian counterpart in Moscow, Lavrov said the Kremlin was ready to assist in the normalisation of Armenia-Azerbaijan relations. View on euronews

Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said on Wednesday that his government was approaching the sham trials of former Artsakh leaders in Baku with caution, despite what he called the “disturbing scenes” he had observed the proceedings.

The Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict was on the agenda of newly appointed U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s phone call with Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan reported by the U.S. State Department on Thursday.

Armenia's task is to protect Armenian prisoners held in Baku at any cost, Tigran Abrahamyan, secretary of the opposition Pativ Unem alliance in Parliament, has said. <br />

Opposition Pativ Unem faction MP Tigran Abrahamyan has warned that Azerbaijan aims to settle so-called "refugees" in strategically important parts of Armenia through the border delimitation and demarcation process.

BAKU, Azerbaijan, January 24. The West provoked Armenia last year to sever its longstanding ties with Russia, the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) said in a statement, Trend reports.

The EU's decision to expand its mission in Armenia to 2025 has a geopolitical context. Brussels, hiding behind peacekeeping rhetoric, is turning this mission into an instrument of military and political pressure. The South Caucasus is becoming yet another arena where the interests of global and regional players collide.

Armenia has submitted its proposals on a peace treaty to the Azerbaijani side and is awaiting a response from official Baku, said Armen Grigoryan, Secretary of the Armenian Security Council, on Thursday.

The Armenian parliament is ready to consider the draft law on joining the European Union in the first half of February, the country's legislative body told Izvestia. The government approved the document on January 9.

Lavrov responded that while Moscow has strategic partnerships and allied relationships with Armenia as well as with Azerbaijan it has a “vested interest” in seeing Armenia and Azerbaijan normalize their relations.