Acting Prime Minister Karen Karapetyan has filed an application on May 8 to President Armen Sarkissian on ceasing his duties as first deputy Prime Minister, and due to which also requested to consider his duties as acting PM to be stopped, the government said.
Prior to resigning, acting PM Karen Karapetyan approved the resignation requests of his acting chief advisor Alexan Harutyunyan and assistant Vladimir Hakobyan, e-gov.am reported.
Karen Karapetyan, before stepping down from the post of acting Prime Minister of Armenia on May 8, adopted a decision on relieving Artak Zakaryan from the position of first deputy defense minister according to his application.
Armenia’s new Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan says his first trip in the new capacity will be to Artsakh on May 9.
Artak Zakaryan, first deputy defense minister of Armenia, announced his resignation.
Acting Prime Minister of Armenia Karen Karapetyan has stepped down as Nikol Pashinyan was elected Prime Minister.
Armenian lawmakers elected opposition leader Nikol Pashinyan as Prime Minister of Armenia.
Candidate for Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan says he is certain that the negotiations for the settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict cannot be complete and effective without the participation of one party – the leadership of Artsakh.
“Being a musician – I am a drifter, who is traveling the world all the time, but I want to spend at least two months a year in Armenia,” SOAD frontman Serj Tankian told reporters in the Armenian parliament.
Nikol Pashinyan, candidate for the Prime Minister of Armenia, assures that if elected as PM the priority task of the new government will be forming a national solidarity atmosphere in Armenia, Artsakh and the Diaspora.
