Prime Minister of Armenia Karen Karapetyan referred to the price increase of some types of goods in the recent period. During a Q&A session at the National Assembly, PM Karapetyan first noted that official price rise in Armenia amounts to 2.6%, whereas it’s 6.7% in Georgia and 7.9% in Azerbaijan.
On January 16, as of 01:15, soldier of Artsakh’s Defense Army Harutyun V. Khachatryan, born in 1998, received fatal gunshot wound in one of the military units, the Artsakh defense ministry reported.
Head of Tsarukyan faction Gagik Tsarukyan doesn’t rule out that their party will support the ruling Republican party’s candidate for the President of Armenia.
The settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict is on the hands of the sides, Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov said during an annual press conference, stating that positive signals are expected from the sides regarding the proposals of the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs.
The new meeting of the foreign ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan is scheduled in mid-January, Armenian deputy foreign minister Shavarsh Kocharyan told reporters in the parliament, adding that at the moment he cannot provide information on the meeting dates and place.
Famous Armenian basketball player Armenak Alajajian (Armenak Alachachan) passed away at the age of 87 in Toronto, Canada, on December 4th, 2017.
On January 7, at 13:20, Defense Army soldier Vache N. Chilingaryan, born in 1998, was fatally wounded by the Azerbaijani shooting in one of the military units located in the north-eastern direction of the Artsakh Defense Army.
The situation in the line of contact of Artsakh-Azerbaijan can be separated into two parts in 2017.
At the last Cabinet meeting of 2017, Prime Minister Karen Karapetyan thanked members of the government for joint work and presented the upcoming tasks for January 2018.
Vice Speaker of the Armenian Parliament Eduard Sharmazanov, who also serves as spokesman of the ruling Republican Party, commented on a question on where President Sargsyan will continue his acitivites after his term in office ends in 2018.
