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.
Artsakh Republic President Bako Sahakyan received on October 30 co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group Stéphane Visconti of France and Andrew Schofer of the United States of America, personal representative of the OSCE chairman-in-office Andrzej Kasprzyk and officials accompanying them.
US President Donald Trump told Axios he is planning to terminate birthright citizenship, potentially setting up another constitutional standoff, CNBC reports.
The meeting of Armenian President Armen Sarkissian and his Belarussian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko was held in Minsk on October 30.
