Acting Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has awarded the title of People’s Artist of Armenia to actor, scriptwriter Yervand Manaryan, 94.
President of Armenia Armen Sarkissian signed a decree on concurrently appointing Ambassador to Germany Ashot Smbatyan (residence in Berlin) as Ambassador to Liechtenstein.
The parliament of Artsakh has installed Artak Beglaryan as the new Human Rights Defender (Ombudsman) of the country.
The European Union-Armenia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee adopted a final statement on Armenia’s domestic political life during a session on October 24, MP Armen Ashotyan, head of the Armenian delegation to the Committee, told reporters in the Parliament.
On October 31, in accordance with the arrangement reached with the authorities of the Republic of Artsakh, the OSCE Mission conducted a planned monitoring of the ceasefire regime on the border of Artsakh and Azerbaijan, on the Akna-Hindarkh road section.
The bill on declaring criminal amnesty doesn’t seek a goal of reducing the workload of correctional facilities, it is an entirely humanitarian act, acting justice minister Artak Zeynalyan said during parliamentary debates of the bill.
Artsakh Republic President Bako Sahakyan received on October 30 co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group Stéphane Visconti of France and Andrew Schofer of the United States of America, personal representative of the OSCE chairman-in-office Andrzej Kasprzyk and officials accompanying them.
US President Donald Trump told Axios he is planning to terminate birthright citizenship, potentially setting up another constitutional standoff, CNBC reports.
The meeting of Armenian President Armen Sarkissian and his Belarussian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko was held in Minsk on October 30.
The Armenian government has displayed flexibility and pragmatism in cooperating with the European Union, EU Ambassador to Armenia Piotr Switalski told reporters today, mentioning that he is pleased with the cooperation.
