President of the Investigative Committee of Armenia Mr. Aghvan Hovsepyan has resigned.
Armenia’s military police have uncovered en extortion case involving military servicemen, defense ministry spokesperson Artsrun Hovhannisyan said on Facebook.
According to Azerbaijani news media, President Ilham Aliyev will also participate in the June 14 opening ceremony of 2018 FIFA World Cup in Moscow, Russia.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has re-appointed a number of deputy ministers.
The killing of a Defense Army serviceman of Artsakh a day before the visit of the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs to Armenia is a provocation aimed at escalating the situation in the region and failure of the agreements over de-escalations, Armenian foreign ministry spokesperson Tigran Balayan said in a commentary, the ministry said.
A 26 year old soldier of Artsakh’s Defense Army was wounded by Azerbaijani gunfire in the evening of June 10.
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, deputy Prime Minister Tigran Avinyan and other government officials held a video-conference with prominent economist Daron Acemoglu, the acclaimed ethnic Armenian economist who was personally contacted by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan shortly after his election for assisting in restoring the country’s economy, the government’s press service said.
Armenia’s minister of foreign affairs Zohrab Mnatsakanyan is participating in the CSTO foreign ministerial council sitting in Almaty, Kazakhstan, the ministry said on Twitter.
Necessary investigatory and operative-intelligence measures are ongoing within the criminal case investigated in Aragatsotn Regional Investigative Department of the RA Investigative Committee to find out all circumstances of the armed incident that took place in Karbi community on May 27. As a result, charge was pressed against one person, two people were arrested.
Investigation is conducted in the Third Garrison Investigative Unit to find out the circumstances of serviceman, Gevorg Khachatryan’s sustaining injury.
