President of Armenia Armen Sarkissian signed a decree according to which Commander of the 3rd Army Corps, Colonel Grigori Khachaturov has been bestowed with the military rank of Major-General.
Armenia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Zohrab Mnatsakanyan and Azerbaijan’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Elmar Mammadyarov will hold a meeting at the mediation and participation of the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs on September 23 in New York City.
President Armen Sarkissian has formalized a motion by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan to award two foreign ministry staffers with the title of Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary.
Armenia’s Defense Minister Davit Tonoyan doesn’t rule out the possibility of the exchange of two Armenian captives in Azerbaijan Karen Ghazaryan and Araik Ghazaryan with two imprisoned Azerbaijani convicts in Artsakh – Dilham Askerov and Shahbaz Guliyev.
On September 19, at 22:42 local time (at 18:42 by GMT) the RA MES Seismic Protection Survey Seismological Network registered an earthquake at the northern latitude of 41.040 and eastern longitude of 43.920 geographic coordinates (13 km south-east from Bavra village, Armenia) with 2.3 magnitude and 10 km depth.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan introduced today interim Director of the National Security Service Eduard Martirosyan to the ranking officers of the structure.
The Armenian government today adopted a decision on holding military mobilization readiness trainings from September 24 to October 5, 2019.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has appointed Deputy Director of the National Security Service (NSS) Eduard Martirosyan to serve as interim director of the NSS.
The substantiation is that it is important to establish the Embassy of the Republic of Armenia in Tel Aviv as soon as possible (end of 2019, beginning of 2020) in order to ensure sustainable development of Armenian-Israeli bilateral relations.
Armenian chess grandmaster Levon Aronian’s next opponent at the FIDE World Cup 2019 is Vietnamese chess player Lê Quang Liêm.
