On July 4, 2018, the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe decided to renew the European Diplomas for Protected Areas to 20 areas in Europe, including the Khosrov Forest Reserve (Armenia)
Armenian President Armen Sarkissian today met with Bedros Terzian, secretary of the Hayastan All- Armenian Fund’s branch in France, who has temporarily assumed the role of managing the Fund’s executive board.
He stressed the need to better monitor the allocation of state funds to the health sector, so as to raise their effectiveness, and to iron out continuing problems in the insurance market.
Police claim that during the April 2017 parliamentary elections Movsisyan received 13 million drams in cash from candidate Ashot Arsenyan. Movsisyan was told to use the money to buy 1,300 votes for Arsenyan.
Khandoyan has been behind bars for almost two years.
A delegation headed by Georgian Public Defender Nino Lomjaria is in Armenia on a three-day visit at the invitation of Armenian Human Rights Defender Arman Tatoyan.
Due to a lack of a quorum, Yerevan’s Municipal Council today failed to elect a new Yerevan mayor.