PM Nikol Pashinyan has appointed Georgy Avetisyan as director of the Food Safety Inspectorate, the government’s press service said.
High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice President of the European Commission Federica Mogherini has praised the EU’s visa facilitation and readmission process with Armenia.
Mayor of Armavir Ruben Khlghatyan has resigned.
Vahan Kostanyan, head of office of First Deputy Prime Minister Ararat Mirzoyan, has resigned.
Russia, together with the other OSCE Minsk Group Co-chair countries, the USA and France, works in the direction of solving the issues aimed at the settlement of Karabakh conflict, Russian foreign Minister Sergey Lavrtov announced in a meeting with reporters after talks with UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres.
After more than a week since minister of labor and social affairs Mane Tandilyan said she is stepping down, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said at today’s Cabinet meeting that he hasn’t accepted the resignation.
President of Armenia Armen Sarkissian has signed an order on June 20 appointing Artak Tonoyan as commander of the peacekeeping forces brigade of the defense ministry, the president’s office said.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has ordered the creation of a reforms commission for the electoral legislation. The commission will function under Pashinyan’s office.
Based on credible intelligence reports, the Naitonal Security Service of Armenia and the Special Investigation Service jointly sent a motion of assistance to Artsakh’s law enforcement agencies which led to a raid and search of arrested MP Manvel Grigoryan’s villa in Artsakh.
Armenia’s defense ministry spokesman Artsrun Hovhannisyan has commented on Azerbaijani defense minister Zakir Hasanov’s statement, who claimed that “Azerbaijan has carried out a very successful operation in Nakhijevan and has taken 11,000 hectares of land under its control”.
