Karapetyan had been serving as First Deputy Chief of the General Staff of Armenia’s Armed Forces.
Acting Armenian Minister of Defense Vagharshak Harutyunyan resigned today.
Nathalie Loiseau told President Sarkissian that she would like to get acquainted with the situation and problems to understand the possible directions of supporting Armenia and Artsakh by the European Union and France.
Manukyan, one of the leaders of the Homeland Salvation Movement (HSM), is charged with making such calls at public rallies in Yerevan during February and March.
Geghamsar community Mayor Hakob Avetyan reported to Hetq that Azerbaijani troops fired on the Sotk and Kut villages, in Armenia’s Gegharkunik Province, yesterday evening.
The Armenian Ministry of Defense reports that Azerbaijani troops fired on Armenian military position in the Yeraskh section of the Armenian-Azerbaijani border for several hours on the evening of July 19 and that the “situation remains tense”.