President of Armenia Armen Sarkissian sent official letters to OSCE Secretary General Thomas Greminger (copy to OSCE/ODIHR Director Ingibjörg Sólrún Gísladóttir) and CIS Executive Committee Chairman, Executive Secretary Sergey Lebedev inviting the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, as well as the CIS member states’ mission to observe the snap parliamentary elections in Armenia which will be held on December 9, .
The border tension has significantly decreased after the agreement of Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev in Dushanbe, Tajikistan and an operative communication exists between the two countries, caretaker defense minister Davit Tonoyan told reporters ahead of parliamentary debates on the 2019 state budget.
Criminal case has been launched over the death of soldier of Artsakh’s Defense Army Aristakes Azatyan.
Caretaker defense minister Davit Tonoyan believes that Armenia should continue the chairmanship at the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO).
The recently declared clemency came into force today and as of 15:30 eighty-one pardoned convicts have been released from correctional institutions across the country, the department of corrections said.
Chairman of the Tseghakron party Shant Harutyunyan has been released from prison today.
Soldier of Artsakh’s Defense Army Aristakes Azatyan, born in 2000, received a fatal gunshot wound on November 6, at 08:25.
National Police Chief Valeriy Osipyan says he attaches great importance to taking into consideration the opinion of victims of crimes in the clemency process.
A historic-cultural monument site under state protection has been illegally used as a funeral site to bury an unknown number of deceased from 1994 to 2017, according to the general prosecution.
The issue of replacing a CSTO Secretary General isn’t anyhow regulated at this moment and the ongoing consultations are aimed for this matter, deputy foreign minister Garen Nazarian said in parliament today.
