The army wasn’t ordered to open gunfire in the March 1 events, claims Chief of the General Staff of the Armenian Armed Forces Artak Davtyan.

Acquiring multifunctional military aviation is a priority for the Armenian Armed Forces, defense minister David Tonoyan said at a press conference today.

Chairman of the state-legal affairs committee of the Armenian parliament Gevorg Kostanyan says the wiretapping of the phone conversation between National Security Service director Arthur Vanetsyan and Special Investigative Committee’s director Sasun Khachatryan is concerning for the country.

Police and the National Security Service currently refuse to disclose any information about the process of implementing Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s orders on “disarming high-level officials and their bodyguards”.

The criminal case initiated in the RA Prosecutor General’s Office on violating the secrecy of telephone conversation between the Director of RA National Security Service Artur Vanetsyan and the Chief of RA Special Investigatory Service Sasun Khachatryan that is recording and disseminating the telephone conversation according to the Part 1 of the Article 146 and the Point 4 of the Part 3 of the Article 254 of RA Criminal Code was received in the proceeding of the RA Investigative Committee.

The investigative committee has launched criminal proceedings on a September 9 shooting in Yerevan.

The Yelk faction of the Armenian parliament has elected MP Lena Nazaryan as leader of the faction.

The domestic political situation and the recent developments in Armenia have been discussed in the sitting of the Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), Arpine Hovhannisyan – Head of the Armenian delegation to the assembly said on Facebook. Hovhannisyan also serves as Deputy Speaker of Parliament of Armenia.

The Azerbaijani military has opened cross-border gunfire at the Armenian town of Baghanis in the Tavush province on September 11.

“Robert Kocharyan and Serzh Sargsyan bear responsibility for seizing power and they should stand before the court,” Nikol Pashinyan said reflecting to eavesdropping of conversation between heads of NSS and Special Investigative Service.