When Hetq asked Minister Harutyunyan why no one was sent to Hungary and why he had made changes to the list of names, we received the following reply from the Ministry’s Chief of Administration Edgar Pirumyan:
During his 4 July visit to Yerevan, EU President Herman Van Rompuy declared that Armenia was moving in the right direction, and that negotiations are now being prepared for the promised EU led international donor conference for financial aid to Armenia’s state and economic reform agenda.
Goryun Nahapetyan, who heads the RA National Assembly’s Standing Committee on Defense, National Security and Internal Affairs, stated today that his committee wasn’t planning to discuss the Harsnakar Restaurant incident any time soon.
Some 300 writers, academics and artists in have joined a petition campaign to protest a verdict by the Turkish Supreme Court of Appeals to nationalize the estates of the Mor Gabriel Monastery (Mardin), the oldest surviving Syriac Orthodox monastery in the world, dating back to 397 AD.
Yesterday, the European Court of Human Rights, in the “Case of Grigoryan v. Armenia”, partially found in favour of the plaintiff and has obligated the RA government to pay Vahe Grigoryan EUR 2,500 in non-pecuniary damages.
A Yerevan court today delayed handing down its verdict in the case filed by the Vanadzor Office of the Helsinki Civic Assembly against RA Police Chief Vladimir Gasparyan.
Today, during a monitoring mission, Mink Group Co-Chairs Igor Popov (Russia), Robert Bradtke (USA), Jacques Faure (France) and Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office Andrzey Kasprzyk, crossed the Artsakh contact line in a section previously cleared of mines in the vicinity of Askeran.
When Hetq asked U.S. Embassy Press Secretary Takouhie Jahoukyan to shed some light on the matter, she answered that the The U.S. Embassy does not comment on individual visa cases.
In 2011, Haroutyunyan only reported his 3,652,680 AMD salary as income, while his cash deposits at the end of the year totalled 5 million. He started the year with 3.5 million.