The parliament did not re-elect Nikol Pashinyan, the sole candidate, as Prime Minister in the second and final round today, as intended.
Armenia will most likely recall Yuri Khachaturov from the position of Secretary General of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), Armenian President Armen Sarkissian told reporters in Minsk, Belarus, according to Interfax.
Special Investigative Service (SIS) director Sasun Khachatryan refused to comment or give any information about an unnamed lawmaker who Nikol Pashinyan said is under a criminal investigation in the most massive bribery case in the history of the Republic of Armenia.
The Armenian parliament unanimously and fully adopted the clemency bill with 75 votes in favor. No one voted against or abstained at today’ second and final hearing.
Head of the Special Investigative Service Sasun Khachatryan commented on the issue of declaring wanted former head of the investigative group over March 1 case Vahagn Harutyunyan and his statement that he told the SIS about his location and there was no need to declare him wanted.
Acting Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan says under an agreement the early elections of parliament will take place on December 9.
President of Armenia Armen Sarkissian, who is in Belarus to participate in the meeting of the Core Group of the Munich Security Conference, had a bilateral meeting with OSCE Secretary General Thomas Greminger in the evening of October 31..
President of Armenia Armen Sarkissian signed a decree on concurrently appointing Ambassador to Germany Ashot Smbatyan (residence in Berlin) as Ambassador to Liechtenstein.
The European Union-Armenia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee adopted a final statement on Armenia’s domestic political life during a session on October 24, MP Armen Ashotyan, head of the Armenian delegation to the Committee, told reporters in the Parliament.
On October 31, in accordance with the arrangement reached with the authorities of the Republic of Artsakh, the OSCE Mission conducted a planned monitoring of the ceasefire regime on the border of Artsakh and Azerbaijan, on the Akna-Hindarkh road section.
