Armenia’s National Assembly will convene a special session tomorrow to vote whether or not to strip MP Manvel Grigoryan, arrested the other day on an illegal arms possession charge, of his immunity as a deputy.
The motion was submitted by the GALA faction, arguing that none of these individuals had never provided any essential services to Gyumri and that awarding them such a title was purely politically motivated.
Regarding the large cache of weapons found in Grigoryan’s house, Hovhannisyan reminded reporters that an investigation was ongoing, adding however, that there were uncovered weapons that “could not be considered legitimate.”
Nikol Pashinyan touched upon the negotiations on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict settlement, Armenian-Turkish relations and spoke about Armenia’s relations with Russia, the European Union, the United States and other countries.
22 boxes of food, medical supplies and clothes donated by a Gyumri scientific research institute in for Armenian troops on the frontline line turned up yesterday when National Security Service staffers inspected the summer resort home of MP Manvel Grigroyan.
Small-scale dairy farmers, irate over the low milk prices being offered by wholesalers, brought their protest to the center of Yerevan today, parking their trucks, loaded with several tons of milk, outside the Government Building.
One of the workers at the plant, located on Gajegordz Street and operated by WKS Armenia LLC, told Hetq that he and the others now receive 30,000-45,000 drams monthly.
Manvel Grigoryan’s lawyer, Hrant Ananyan, says he’ll no longer defend the retired army general and parliament deputy due to revelations released by the National Security Service (NSS) yesterday regarding the discovery of donated food and medical supplies, destined for Armenian troops, in Grigoryan’s summer resort home.
In the video released yesterday by the National Security Service showing what was found in the summer resort home of Manvel Grigoryan, we clearly see boxes of supplies donated by students from Yerevan’s P.S. 164 destined for Armenian soldiers and letters they wrote to the troops.
Those demanding his resignation had staged days of demonstrations in the town.
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