Former minister of transportation and communication of Armenia Gurgen Sargsyan, coordinator of the works of Stones LLC, has been remanded into custody under the ongoing criminal case launched into the North-South Road Corridor project.
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has sacked Deputy Prime Minister Ali Hasanov and Deputy Prime Minister Hajibala Abutalibov, RIA Novosti reported citing the Azerbaijani presidency.
The Parliament of Croatia ratified the Armenia-EU Comprehensive and Enhanced Partnership Agreement (CEPA) (115 votes in favor and 4 in absentia), submitting it for the signing of the President, Armenian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Anna Naghdalyan said on Facebook.
According to the decision of the Armenian Prime Minister, Artak Nahapetyan has been relieved from the position of the Director of the Rescue Service of the ministry of emergency situations.
President of Armenia Armen Sarkissian sent a letter of condolences to Russian President Vladimir Putin over the dam collapse in an artisanal gold mine in Russia’s Krasnoyarsk Region in Siberia.
Ex-President Robert Kocharyan has been taken back to jail pending trial after undergoing a surgery at the Izmirlyan Medical Center on October 9. Kocharyan was recovering from the procedure for nearly two weeks at the hospital.
The Security Council of Armenia is holding an extraordinary session which has been planned in advance chaired by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan.
Spokeswoman of the Foreign Ministry of Armenia Anna Naghdalyan commented on the statements of the Azerbaijani foreign minister made during his interview to the Russian Izvestia daily.
The European Union condemned Turkey’s military operations in Syria, the European Council said in a statement released after the first day of the summit in Brussels, TASS reported.
Major-General Arshak Karapetyan, former head of the intelligence department of the general staff of the Armenian Armed Forces, who currently serves as advisor to the Prime Minister, is taking part in the session of the ad hoc committee of the Armenian parliament tasked to investigate the circumstances of the 2016 April four-day war.
