Police Corporal Gagik Mkrtchyan – who was wounded on July 17 when gunmen ambushed the Police precinct in Yerevan – has died on August 13, Armenian Healthcare Ministry infomed.
The Azerbaijani media reports a resident of Ararat province of Armenia has crossed the border in Nakhijevan and appeared in the Azerbaijani territory. The Azerbaijani commission on prisoners of war, missing persons also confirmed the news. The Azerbaijani media presented the man’s namesurname in a different way.
People try Armenian food for the first time
A memorandum of understating on visa-free regime signed between Armenia and Iran on June 5, 2016, has entered into force, the Armenian MFA wrote on Facebook.
The President’s also instructed the Presidential Chief of Staff and the Secretary of the National Security Council until September 1 to present the Council’s Secretariat’s statute and structure for approval.
“Of course, on account of the mistakes, we implemented different military trainings, on the basis of which lay the issue of developing new strategy, new operations and arrays,” he said.
“I think instigation is quite clear, as in the country throughout 25 years changes haven’t been recorded as a result of political discourse, I mean in political processes, political debates, and the authorities did their best to destroy any developing political organism. And naturally, when political organisms are destroyed, others come to substitute them, and when policy pursued through peaceful or conventional methodology fails, that sacred place doesn’t remain empty.”
“They, surely, had reasons to take that step. They didn’t put down the weapons from the very first day. In a positive sense they created a situation in the country, which hasn’t been recorded throughout past years, i.e. elimination of threat among the public. And if they put down the weapons on the first, second day, that situation hasn’t been established yet, and it wouldn’t be the same we had 2 weeks, 15 days later.”
Other personnel changes have also been made in the Police system. In particular, Artak Karapetyan has been appointed head of Shirak Regional Police Department. Previously he was the head of Lori Regional Police Department.
“We have already informed that based on the ongoing investigation results in the Police, as well as the orders of the Police Chief, several police officers, including Ashot Karapetyan have been subjected to disciplinary penalties. According to Police Chief Vladimir Gasparyan’s decree Ashot Karapetyan today has been dismissed from his post,” the statement said.
