Armenian lawmakers elected chairmen for the 9 standing committees. Chairman of the counting commission Gagik Melikyan released the voting results in the Parliament.
Armenia’s Prime Minister Karen Karapetyan appointed Aram Araratyan as his press secretary on May 20, the government’s press service informed.
“Unfortunately, we recorded a casualty—this is irreversible loss, like any of them. Azerbaijan simply is playing with the fire. Such behavior, manifestation of such impudent, irreverent attitude towards the international community, I consider shouldn’t remain with no reply. Soon it may be anticipated that in case of continuity of such behavior tougher and more painful steps will be taken toward Azerbaijan: we hope it’ll be so,” Davit Babayan said.
70th jubilee edition of Cannes has been launched at Côte d’Azur gathering world cinematography giants here. The feeling of cinema fete, felt in the air, pleasantly and successfully makes forget after-effects of tiring road, however, this mood has less probability to last long if you are here to work.
“It is difficult to build statehood in the conditions of the armed conflict, which, unfortunately, is being escalated. I visited Nagorno Karabakh in August, 2014, the period when the situation was tense. I have visited there also during the constitutional referendum this year, and we were together in the place when the residents of Talish were resettled.
“I’ve committed that such thing won’t be repeated, if nothing threatens our forces,” he said as quoted by Reuters.
“The president will receive Mr. Paolo Gentiloni in the Élysée Palace over a dinner table,” the statement says. Paolo Gentiloni will be the rst foreign top official to be received by Macron after the latter’s inauguration.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has secured the necessary majority in Friday’s election, defeating his conservative rival, Ebrahim Raisi, according to the country’s Interior Minister, RT reports.
“I have an impression that people were unable to understand that such crimes really happened. But at the same time I want to congratulate the Armenian people who maintained their honor and accepted to some extent their own history, as well as had the courage to pass the brutal page of this history for brighter times to come.”
“A Caucasian heavy-built man got into a taxi in a Moscow Street shouting Allahu Akbar. A search and apprehend operation is underway in the city,” the source said.