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.

The Government of Armenia will discuss the issue of opening an Embassy in Ethiopia, ARMENPRESS reports the issue is included in the agenda of September 19 session of the Cabinet.

Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan signed a decision according to which Valery Osipyan was appointed chief advisor to the PM.

In addition, Vladimir Gasparyan, serving as deputy defense minister on December 3, 2010, extended the military service term of one of these servicemen for five years.

The President signed the respective decree based on the Prime Minister’s proposal.