Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan attended an official reception in St. Petersburg, hosted on behalf of the Armenian Embassy in the Russian Federation, which brought together numerous well-known representatives of the Armenian community – cultural and public figures, business people.
Armenia has raised at the OSCE the issue of Azerbaijan holding military exercises without prior notification, Minister of Foreign Affairs Zohrab Mnatsakanyan said today in response to opposition MP Tigran Urikhanyan’s (Prosperous Armenia) question at a committee hearing.
Opening a path to dialogue for the visa liberalization with the EU states is a key task for Armenia. In this sense the communication between the representatives of Armenia’s migration service and other agencies and the respective specialists of the EU member states is very important, Armenian Foreign Minister Zohrab Mnatsakanyan said at the joint session of the parliamentary standing committees.
Any kind of promotion of violence and hatred in Armenia must receive strong counter-action, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said at the beginning of today’s Cabinet meeting, emphasizing that it doesn’t anyhow matter whether these promoters are proceeding as supporters or opposition of the government.
“I had several meetings with the military-political leaderships of Nagorno Karabakh and Armenia and presented my view on the settlement of the Artsakh conflict and was interested in whether they agree with or oppose the vision proposed by me.
We will soon create a new anti-corruption court and I also want to comment on the most important issue, for instance many ask why necessary reforms have not been carried out in the judiciary within this one year.
The power of Armenia’s current judiciary doesn’t stem from the people and it has a legitimacy problem, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan told reporters in parliament.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan is highlighting the significance of a rapid full-swing commissioning of the Shirak Airport in Gyumri, Armenia in terms of strategic importance.
Member of Parliament Sisak Gabrielyan from the ruling My Step Alliance has proposed amendments into the bill on providing compensations to the victims of the March 1 -2 2008 unrest in Yerevan.
The defense ministry of the Republic of Artsakh told Armenpress that on June 1, at 07:30, soldier of the Defense Army Sipan Melkonyan, born in 2000, received a fatal gunshot wound by the shot fired from the Azerbaijani side at a military unit located in the south-eastern (Martuni) direction of the Defense Army.
