According to Azerbaijani news media, President Ilham Aliyev will also participate in the June 14 opening ceremony of 2018 FIFA World Cup in Moscow, Russia.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has re-appointed a number of deputy ministers.
The killing of a Defense Army serviceman of Artsakh a day before the visit of the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs to Armenia is a provocation aimed at escalating the situation in the region and failure of the agreements over de-escalations, Armenian foreign ministry spokesperson Tigran Balayan said in a commentary, the ministry said.
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, deputy Prime Minister Tigran Avinyan and other government officials held a video-conference with prominent economist Daron Acemoglu, the acclaimed ethnic Armenian economist who was personally contacted by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan shortly after his election for assisting in restoring the country’s economy, the government’s press service said.
Armenia’s minister of foreign affairs Zohrab Mnatsakanyan is participating in the CSTO foreign ministerial council sitting in Almaty, Kazakhstan, the ministry said on Twitter.
President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev participated in opening of agricultural “Region Agropark” in Goranboy district on June 5. A few days later the funny photos of his visit appeared on the net.
The Azerbaijani side violated the ceasefire regime nearly 200 times in Artsakh-Azerbaijan contact line during the period of June 3-9 firing over 2 thousand bullets in the direction of Armenian border guards.
The representatives of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) visited in May Armenian and Azerbaijani nationals imprisoned as a result of Nagorno Karabakh conflict.
Russian-Israeli travel blogger Alexander Lapshin, the man who was under global media spotlight for his arrest and extradition to Azerbaijan for visiting Artsakh, claims that celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain’s death may somehow be connected with the latter’s visit and filming of CNN’s Parts Unknown in Artsakh.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has appointed Arthur Hovhannisyan, Vigen Kocharyan, Suren Krmoyan and Artak Asatryan as deputy ministers of justice.
