Artsakh’s Speaker of Parliament Ashot Ghulyan convened a consultation September 5 in participation of chairmen of committees and factions, the Parliament’s press service said.
Armen Ashotyan, chairman of the foreign relations committee of the Armenian Parliament, spoke about the Azerbaijani money laundering corruption scandal during the European People’s Party’s Political Assembly.
The 6th trilateral meeting of the Azerbaijani, Turkish and Georgian foreign ministers will take place September 6 in Baku.
At a September 5 consultation in the Presidential Palace, chairman of the ethics committee of high-ranking officials Siranush Sahakyan briefed President Serzh Sargsyan on the committee’s activities of the past years, achievements and issues.
On the sidelines of the official visit to China, Armenia’s defense minister Vigen Sargsyan visited the country’s defense academy in the morning of September 5.
Transparency International, the global anti-corruption organisation, is calling for an investigation into the Azerbaijani briberies of European politicians, and to sanction the perpetrators.
The Russian president said the war hysteria around North Korea has no sense and leads to a deadlock, therefore anything other than negotiations might lead to a mass scale disaster.
The secret fund, nicknamed the Azerbaijan Laundromat, operated for two years until 2014, according to the investigation, carried out by a consortium of European newspapers and published by the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP).
On July 14, a 28 year old man armed with a knife attacked tourists in a Hurghada hotel. Two German citizens were killed, four others – including two Armenians, one Russian and one Czech citizen, were wounded. The wounded Armenians were transported to a Cairo hospital where they were treated for their injuries.
In the framework of the criminal case S. Minasyan and Ye. Hayrapetyan were found the injured party, the young man, born in 1996, was arrested.
