217 participants of the rally organized by opposition MP Nikol Pashinyan have been detained on April 20, as of 17:00.
More than half of the new Cabinet has been named as Armenian President Armen Sargsyan re-appointed today Davit Harutyunyan as minister of justice, Davit Tonoyan as minister emergency situations, Ignati Arakelyan as minister of agriculture and Armen Amiryan as minister of culture.
The first direct flight between Yerevan and Lyon launched on April 19.
Prime Minister of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan held a meeting Friday with Catholicos of All Armenians Garegin II and Catholicos of the Great House of Cilicia Aram I in Yerevan, the PM’s office said.
Armenia’s new Prime Minister Serzh Sargsyan, who took office April 17 after being elected by the parliament, has made several new appointments April 20, the government said.
166 participants of the rally organized by opposition MP Nikol Pashinyan have been detained on April 20, as of 14:00.
“I treat obsequiousness very negatively, but I also treat negatively people who are unfairly chanting, defaming and distorting what others have said”, Prime Minister of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan said in an interview to SHANT TV.
On April 20, as of 09:00, the Yerevan Police detained 16 participants of the rally organized by opposition MP Nikol Pashinyan.
Emigration is Armenia’s bleeding wound that the Government tries to solve, Prime Minister of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan said during an interview with Shant TV.
His Holiness Aram I, Catholicos of the Great House of Cilicia, arrives in Armenia on April 20.
