Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has appointed former diplomat and former foreign ministry spokesperson Vladimir Karapetyan to serve as his new spokesperson.
An appeals court is expected to start the hearing over former President Robert Kocharyan’s arrest case at 12:00 today, according to Kocharyan’s attorneys.
It goes without saying that the European Court of Human Rights will rule in the near future that Armenia’s repeated arrests of the former President of Armenia, Robert Kocharyan, are politically-motivated and breached his human rights.
The Armenian defense ministry will try to develop a new service format in 2019 for those persons with certain healthcare restrictions who must serve in the Army, Defense minister Davit Tonoyan told reporters today.
There are no changes in the negotiation format for the settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict, Armenia’s foreign minister Zohrab Mnatsakanyan told reporters, commenting on the recent informal talks between Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev.
Artsakh’s status and security remain priority issues for Armenia, Foreign minister Zohrab Mnatsakanyan told reporters today in the Yerablur Military Pantheon, adding that his talks with Azerbaijani foreign minister Elmar Mammadyarov have been and will be over this.
Currently the talk is about not increasing the 2019 gas price for Armenia’s consumers. This means that we have one year in order to continue the consultations with our partners from Russia, Gazprom and within the EAEU frameworks in general in order to solve this issue in long-term prospective.
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pahsinyan arrived in Russia on a working visit.
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Prime Minister of the Netherlands Mark Rutte have held a meeting in Davos within the framework of the World Economic Forum, Pashinyan’s office said.
The most important reforms are connected with economy, and we need to transform the political revolution into an economic revolution, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said in an interview with Euronews in Davos when asked about the reforms in Armenia.
