Interim Police Chief of Armenia Arman Sargsyan has awarded a posthumous Medal of Heroism to Tigran Arakelyan, the Yerevan police officer who was gunned down in the line of duty on October 16th. Arakelyan was awarded for “selflessness and heroism in the line of duty in life-threatening conditions”, the police department said in a news release.

At the Turkic Council’s 7th summit the President of Azerbaijan once again repeated his aspirations for Armenia’s and Armenian territories, this time spicing it up with pan-Turkism emphases.

The Armenian government has initiated a program to plant 10 million trees across the Republic by October 10, 2020 as a sign of the unity of 10 million Armenians, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said at the Global Innovation Forum (GIF 2019) in Yerevan which has been organized by the Foundation for Armenian Science and Technology (FAST).

Soon a legislative initiative on officially recognizing the Armenian Genocide will be introduced in the Parliament of Moldova, Accent TV reported.

Acting Police Chief of Armenia Arman Sargsyan today visited the police officer who was wounded at an incident yesterday in Yerevan.

Russian President Vladimir Putin invited his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan to pay a working visit to Russia which was approved by the Turkish leader, the Kremlin press service said in a statement.

Artsakh Republic President Bako Sahakyan on October 16 received OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs Igor Popov (Russian Federation), Stephane Visconti (France) and Andrew Schofer (USA), personal representative of the OSCE chairman-in-office Andrzej Kasprzyk and officials accompanying them.

 Two persons have been detained by the Police of Armenia in suspicion of killing a police officer in Yerevan on October 16, Head of PR and Media Department of the Police Ashot Aharonyan said on Facebook.

 Artsakh Republic President Bako Sahakyan on October 15 participated in an event organized in Yerevan within the framework of “Reforming the World” film festival.

The Canadian authorities made a decision to temporarily suspend the supply of weapons to Turkey due to Ankara’s ongoing military operations in Syria, the Canadian foreign ministry said in a statement.