Aghvan Vardanyan, Secretary of the ARF faction of the Armenian parliament, said during parliamentary hearings that he will not participate in the voting for the election of Prime Minister.

Vice Speaker of the Parliament of Armenia Eduard Sharmazanov doesn’t see PM candidate Nikol Pashinyan as Prime Minister.

Speaker of Parliament Ara Babloyan left the parliamentary sitting for 10 minutes as a sign of protest to PM candidate Nikol Pashinyan’s statement regarding children’s rights.

Nikol Pashinyan says he believes that the country’s military spending must be adequate to the regional situation.

Nikol Pashinyan, candidate for the Prime Minister of Armenia, says the Armenian-Georgian relations should be based on the Armenian-Georgian platform, Armenpress reports.

Vice Speaker of Parliament Eduard Sharmazanov said he is unaware of the resignation of HHK faction lawmaker Grigor Avalyan.

Republican Party (HHK) faction MP Hakob Hakobyan asked candidate for Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan about his tasks in social affairs if elected to office.

Karine Achemyan, MP of the Republican Party (RPA) faction of the Armenian Parliament, thinks that Yelk faction head, PM candidate Nikol Pashinyan gently supports the position of the leadership on the foreign policy.

Nikol Pashinyan says he is in favor for bringing the security structures of the country into the parliamentary supervision arena, however the opposition leader says that the interim government will not be able to solve all problems, therefore priorities must be defined.

According to Nikol Pashinyan, the negotiations over the Nagorno Karabakh conflict settlement will have a meaning only in case when Azerbaijan will address a very clear message to the international community that it commits to respect and recognize norms of international law and is ready for the issue’s settlement within the framework of these norms.