Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan promised to make an important announcement later today regarding implementation of the final stage of the “Velvet Revolution”.
National Security Service (NSS) Chief Artur Vanetsyan told reporters today that the government will continue to provide security for former Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan, even if he leaves the government private residence he now occupies.
Ghazaryan replaces Levon Vahramyan, one of the six cabinet ministers belonging to either the Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK) or the ARF sacked on October 3.
The Armenian government today appointed the new provincial governors of Lori, Gegharkunik and Vayots Dzor.
The Armenian Times (Haykakan Zhamanak) website issued a news brief today stating that 16 Armenian MPs, mostly members of the Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) have signed a petition calling for parliamentary elections in December.
Rostomyan, a member of the Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK) was one of the six BHK or ARF ministers Pashinyan sacked the other day.
Armenian Minister of Defense Davit Tonoyan told reporters today that he is working with the International Red Cross to facilitate the release two Armenians being held in Azerbaijan.
At today’s cabinet session, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan wished the six provincial ministers he sacked the other day success in their future endeavors.
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has ordered that the park on the grounds of the National Assembly in Yerevan be opened to civilians every day from 10am-8pm.
Armenian Prime Minister minced no words today when he called a bill introduced by three Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) MPs as a “counter-revolution in the making”.
Armen Rustamyan, who heads the ARF faction in the National Assembly, told reporters today in Yerevan that while the party agrees that snap parliamentary elections must be held, there is no rush to do so.
“Afterwards, when the classic political party competition starts, we will decide how to proceed,” Avetisyan said.
Supporters of the Sasna Tzrer political movement today gathered in Yerevan and unanimously voted to create a political party that will participate in the future snap parliamentary elections.
Sefilyan called for reopening those cases and for holding those responsible accountable.
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Armenia to the Holy See Mikayel Minasyan, the son-in-law of the ex-president Serzh Sargsyan will be recalled from the post of ambassador, as confirmed by Deputy Foreign Minister Ruben Rubinyan. Rubinyan said that was the Prime Minister Pashinyan's decision.
An oxygen cannister exploded today at Yerevan’s St. Gregory the Illuminator Medical Center, killing one person.
Responding to rumors about a possible meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, Armenian Minister of Foreign Affairs Zohrab Mnatsakanyan told reporters today in Yerevan that organizing such a tête-à-tête would take time.
A crowd of several hundred demonstrators attempted to enter the Government Building in Yerevan today while Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan was chairing a cabinet meeting inside.
The Center for Strategic Initiatives was founded by Alexander Khachaturyan, adviser to former Prime Minister Karen Karapetyan.
“At least one-quarter of all MPs have contacted me about forming an examing committee to investigate the prevention of justice, the right to a fair trial, and the violation of secrecy of telephone conversations. A special session will be held, at the initiative of the MPs, immediately after the next sessions,” Babloyan said.
Armenian National Assembly President Ara Babloyan today described yesterday’s publication of a secretly taped phone conversation of the heads of the country’s National Security Service and the Special Investigative Service as “deeply troubling and unprecedented.”
MPs will vote in a secret ballot tomorrow and Dilanyan must win one-third of the ballots for approval.
Armenian’s National Assembly, by a vote of 78-9, today elected Martin Galstyan a member of the board of the Central Bank of Armenia.
Martin Galstyan, the first director of the Dilijan International School, who’s worked at the bank for years in various capacities, has been nominated a candidate for the post by the Republican Party of Armenia’s parliamentary faction.
Armenia’s National Assembly today unanimously passed a bill that will increase penalties for those found guilty of electoral fraud, including bribing voters.
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan called for a baby boom in Armenia during a cabinet meeting today to review a proposal by Minister of Labor and Social Affairs Maneh Tandilyan to raise the one- time payment to parents having a second child from 50,000 to 150,000 drams.
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan will meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on September 8.
Armenian President Armen Sarkissian’s two sons, 37-year-old Vardan and 34-year-old Hayk, have been exempted from compulsory military service in Armenia.
Sasun Khachatryan, the head of Armenia’s Special Investigative Service (SIS), told reporters today in Yerevan that he is sure that those responsible for the death of eight civilians and two police officers in March 2008 will be identified.
While Armenia’s Court of Appeals is scheduled to review the case of releasing former Armenian president from pre-trial detention today, Sasun Khachatryan, who heads the country’s Special Investigative Service, strongly opposes such a move.
Robert Kocharyan, Armenia’s second president charged with usurping state power in March 2008, will not be released from pre-trial detention even though 46 Armenian MPs have personally guaranteed that Kocharyan would not flee the country.
Artsakh National Assembly Presidential Press Secretary Anush Ghavalyan reported the news in a Facebook post, writing that the petition was handed to Armenia’s prosecutor general.
The ministry says the judicial code permits judges to carry firearms and what remains is to regulate the issuance of guns.
46 Armenian MPs - 42 from the Republican Party of Armenia, 3 from the ARF, and one from Prosperous Armenia – have signed a petition to release former Armenian president Robert Kocharyan from pre-trial detention.
The following three individuals will head their respective party’s ticket in the upcoming special Yerevan Municipal Council election, whose date as yet to be announced. Voters do not directly elect the mayor. The person heading the winning municipal council ticket will become Yerevan’s next mayor.
Special Investigative Service (SIS) Chief Sasun Khachatryan told reporters today that it’s necessary to keep Robert Kocharyan, Armenia’s second president, in pre-trial detention because he could influence those investigating the charges levied against him.
Pashinyan says an important conversation is expected about what has happened in Armenia during the last 100 days, the steps that have been taken and will be taken by the government to ensure Armenia’s fast development.
Ministry of Foreign Affairs Press Spokesman Tigran Balayan says that the Armenian government recently requested that Yuri Khachatryan be replaced as CSTO Secretary General in order that the Russia-led security body not be discredited.
Armenian Minister of Foreign Affairs Press Spokesman Tigran Balayan told reporters today in Yerevan that OSCE monitoring might deter Baku from mounting any provocative military measures in the are.
The Armenian government has sent a formal request to the CSTO (Collective Security Treaty Organization) head office in Moscow to replace Yuri Khachatryan, a former Armenian deputy defense minister charged with “usurping state power” in March 2008, as secretary general.
In response to a Hetq inquiry during today’s press conference in Yerevan, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said that he raised the issue of Belarus selling its Polonaise multiple launch rocket system to Azerbaijan during a recent meeting he had with Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko.
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan says his government will never back a solution to the Karabakh conflict that isn’t acceptable to the Armenian people.
Vanetsyan told Hetq that the NSS has amassed a large amount of new evidence regarding the illegally acquired finances of certain officials and that their names will be announced in the near future.
Yerevan, the capital of Armenia, has gone without a mayor since July 9, when Taron Margaryan resigned from the post, and the issue regarding his replacement remains up in the air due to differing views on what the law on local self-governance states on the matter.
Addressing a parliamentary working group tasked with reforming Armenia’s Electoral Code, Deputy Prime Minister Ararat Mirzoyan said it was vital for elections in the country to be free, fair and transparent so that nobody could dispute their legitimacy.
If Armenia’s National Assembly approves a government introduced bill to make changes to the military draft law, those conscripts whose parents or siblings were killed during military operations could be freed from serving in the army if they are the family’s only child.
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has thrown cold water on a proposal submitted by two Republican Party of Armenia MPs to set the income tax rate at 20% for those making more than AMD 500,000 a month, and 25% for those earning more than that.
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has ordered an investigation to ascertain whether the claims presented to have military service waivers granted for the sons of present and past government officials are in fact legal and substantiated.
According to a statement released by the Special Investigative Service, the man allegedly beaten by Babayan was Vyacheslav Harutyunyan, whose son won a world boxing championship for Armenia in 2012.
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