Armenia’s National Assembly passed the government’s 2017-2022 economic development program by a vote of 64 to 31.
During an Armenian parliamentary debate today on a bill outlining the country’s economic development agenda for 2017-2022, Minister of Territorial Administration and Development Davit Lokyan told MPs that lopsided economic development in Armenia was a major issue to be tackled.
During today’s Armenian parliamentary debate today on a bill outlining the country’s economic development agenda for 2017-2022, Yelk Alliance MP Nikol Pashinyan accused Prime Minister Karen Karapetyan of being appointed to the post solely to allow Serzh Sargsyan to remain in power.
Matevosyan had tendered his resignation on June 5. When asked why he decided to resign, Matevosyan said he’d explain why later. He’s not answering Hetq’s telephone calls.
The funding, suggested by Minister of Agriculture Ignaty Arakelyan, is part of 252 million AMD project, of which 108 million was allocated last December.
Armenian Minister of Justice Davit Harutyunyan told reporters today that he’ll be implementing gradual, but continuing steps, to do away with the roots of corruption and bribery within the country’s court system.
That incident occurred on July 1, 2012, when Lieutenant Colonel Vardan Samvelyan, deputy commander of a Yerevan unit attached to the defense ministry, attempted to blow up the Harsnakar Restaurant owned by Ruben Hayrapetyan, a ruling Republican Party of Armenia MP.
According to the National Statistical Service, the number of those unemployed in Armenia hovered around 80,000 during the first four months of 2017.
Armenia’s National Assembly overwhelmingly voted in favor of a bill to establish a new state body to prevent corruption in the country.
Some 7.3 billion AMD ($15 million) worth of humanitarian aid was sent to Armenia in the first four months of 2017, a drop of 0.7% from the same period in 2016.
Artur Khachatryan has been appointed the new Shirak Provincial Governor of Armenia.
Among more mundane matters, MPs debated a controversial bill designed to privatize several state- owned facilities at today’s special session of Armenia’s National Assembly convened by the government.
The body of a Kolya Simonyan a Tzovagyugh village resident who had gone crawfish hunting in Lake Sevan was found today after relatives reported him missing.
While the Armenian government talks about developing tourism, many of the country’s hidden natural wonders are threatened by official neglect and commercial abuse.
Responding to a Hetq article that Kotayk provincial authorities had failed to remove garbage from the road leading to the village of Dzoraghbyur, Armenia’s Ministry of Territorial Administration and Development has written that the trash has been disposed of, sending photos to confirm the claim.
Before the start of today’s session of Armenia’s parliament, three new Tsarukyan Alliance MPs took the oath of office, followed by the applause of their legislative colleagues.
Three MPs recently elected to the new Armenian parliament from the Tsarukyan Alliance, have been officially relieved of their legislative mandates.
Botoyan, a member of the ruling Republican Party of Armenia, replaced Rafik Gigoryan who was elected an MP in the new parliament.
The Armenian government today issued Rusal Armenal a license to manage, safeguard and store dangerous waste materials.
Armenia has allocated 800,000 drams for a charity exhibition/sale of works and pastries by Syrian- Armenian craftspeople.
When asked to comment on the common perception in Armenia that bribery in the electoral system is endemic, Hrach Tovmasyan, nominated by the ruling Republican Party of Armenia to head the newly formed State-Legal and Human Rights Protection Standing Committee of the Armenian parliament, said that to have clean elections the public’s political and legal quality levels must be raised.
Three MPs newly elected to Armenia’s parliament on the Tsarukyan Alliance ticket have tendered their resignation papers.
100 out of Armenia’s 105 MP parliament today elected Edward Sharmazanov and Arpineh Hovhannisyan (from the ruling Republican Party of Armenia), and Mikayel Melkoumyan (Tsarukyan Alliance) as deputy speakers of the new National Assembly.
Armenia’s Yelk Alliance boycotted today’s opening session of parliament to protest the appearance of the country’s president Serzh Sargsyan.
Zaruhie Postanjyan and her daughter, injured in a confrontation with police on Yerevan municipal council election day May 14, are still be treated at a Yerevan hospital.
Argam Abrahamyan, son of the former Armenian Prime Minister Hovik Abrahamyan, who was elected to parliament on April 2, announced today on his Facebook page that he's stepping down as mayor of Artashat in order to assume his parliamentary mandate.
Nikol Pashinyan, whose Yelk Alliance came in a distant second in yesterday’s election for Yerevan’s municipal council, told reporters today that he was headed to take his seat in the parliament, even though he was high enough on the Yelk ticket to secure a spot on the council.
Hetq has repeatedly reported about the illegal logging going on in Dilijan National Park during the last two months.
China will donate 100 million Yuan (some US$14.5 million) to Armenia towards the purchase of medical emergency vehicles and to facilitate discussion on other programs to spur cooperation between the two countries in the charitable and techno-economic sectors.
Data released by the National Statistical Service says 22% of the construction was financed by private means.
Two of the five babies born to Lousineh Poghosyan are still in serious condition, and the other two are said to be stable.
23-year-old Lousineh Poghosyan, a native of Arshalyus, a village in Armenia’s Armavir Province, gave birth to quintuplets yesterday.
Norayr Grigoryan, the mayor of Norashen in Armenia’s Ararat Province, told Hetq he has no idea who the gunmen were who shot his car yesterday evening on the way home from work.
If you find this number a bit much to swallow, you’re in good company. As to what defines a “tourist” for the NSS remains a mystery.
Armenia will spend AMD 560 million (US$ 1.155 million) this year to provide housing to some 100 families left homeless due to the 1988 earthquake.
Scores of Yerevan market business owners, claiming that tax inspectors are harassing them, have assembled in Yerevan’s Republic Square this afternoon and are waiting to meet with Armenian Prime Minister Karen Karapetyan.
Despite the claim, Dzoraghbyur resident Tigran Alaverdfyan told Hetq that the litter hasn’t been removed from near his house․
The draft decision was shared with different state structures and bodies. None have issued any objections or suggestions in response.
I went to Ditak to write about the kindergarten. After leaving the school, I strolled around, camera in hand, and snapped these photos.
841,973 individuals will be eligible to cast ballots in the election in which three political parties/alliances are fielding candidates.
Given that it was the last sitting of the four-day session, deputy speaker Hermineh Naghdalyan suggested that a group photo be taken.
Today was the third day in a row that Armenia’s parliament couldn’t convene a quorum due to a lack of MPs.
Police in the town of Ijevan say they are investigating news circulated by a bunch of hikers that healthy trees have been chopped down along the road leading to the Ashot Yerkat (Iron Ashot) fort in Armenia’s Tavoush Province.
Prosperous Armenia Party MP Naira Zorabyan took the floor and said that given the situation one could assume that those MPs who were present “live due to honest work”, implying that those absent had commercial and other interests outside the legislature.
According to parliamentary procedure, registration remained open for another three hours. The necessary number of MPs never showed up.
Out of an eligible electorate of 2,588,590, 1,577,323 citizens cast ballots in the election to decide the make-up of the country’s new 101-seat legislature.
Nikol Pashinyan, who won election to Armenia’s new parliament on April 2 running on the Yelk Alliance ticket, now says he wants the job of Yerevan mayor.
Armen Martirosyan, a candidate who ran on the ticket of the losing ORO alliance ticket in the April 2 parliamentary election, described the vote as an “auction” and that the ORO alliance was targeted with negative propaganda during the campaign.
With only four polling stations in Armenia not having reported results in the April 2 parliamentary election, Central Electoral Commission President Tigran Moukouchyan declared the following four parties/alliances as making it to the country’s new legislature: