Armenia to nominate former defense minister to CSTO secretary general post
03.08.2018,
11:50
Armenia intends to nominate Lieutenant General Vagharshak Harutyunyan, who was Armenian defense minister in 1999 and 2000, to the post of the secretary general of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, Interfax reported on Friday.
YEREVAN, August 3. /ARKA/. Armenia intends to nominate Lieutenant General Vagharshak Harutyunyan, who was Armenian defense minister in 1999 and 2000, to the post of the secretary general of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, Interfax reported on Friday.
Earlier, Armenia proposed its Collective Security Treaty Organization partners to embark on replacement of the secretary general of the organization.
The thing is that Yuri Khachaturov, CSTO secretary general, is charged with toppling constitutional order in collusion with other persons.
Khachaturov was detained recently over the bloody events of March 1, 2008, but later he was released on an AMD 5-million bail.
The case dates back to late February and early March 2008 following the disputed presidential election, when then prime minister Serzh Sargsyan was declared the winner, angering the opposition, led by the first Armenian president Levon Ter-Petrosyan and setting off 10 days of nonstop protests that led to a crackdown on March 1, in which 10 people were killed and more than 200 injured.
Khachaturov then was the chief of the Yerevan garrison.
Former Armenian president Robert Kocharyan is charged with the same crime, but he will remain in detention pending trial.
Also former defense minister Mikael Harutyunyan is wanted by the law-enforcement authorities as a defendant in the case.
The likely successor of Yuri Khachaturov, Vagharshak Harutyunyan, 62, worked on different positions in Armenia’s defense.
After his conflict with Robert Kocharyan, who ruled the country from 1998 to 2008, broken over the terrorist act in the parliament in 1999, Harutyunyan was degraded from lieutenant general to major general, and then dismissed.
On Thursday, the Special Investigative Service of Armenia permitted Khachaturov to leave the country for his work though obliging him to come back.
Yuri Khachaturov was appointed as CSTO secretary general in 2017 for three years. -0---
Earlier, Armenia proposed its Collective Security Treaty Organization partners to embark on replacement of the secretary general of the organization.
The thing is that Yuri Khachaturov, CSTO secretary general, is charged with toppling constitutional order in collusion with other persons.
Khachaturov was detained recently over the bloody events of March 1, 2008, but later he was released on an AMD 5-million bail.
The case dates back to late February and early March 2008 following the disputed presidential election, when then prime minister Serzh Sargsyan was declared the winner, angering the opposition, led by the first Armenian president Levon Ter-Petrosyan and setting off 10 days of nonstop protests that led to a crackdown on March 1, in which 10 people were killed and more than 200 injured.
Khachaturov then was the chief of the Yerevan garrison.
Former Armenian president Robert Kocharyan is charged with the same crime, but he will remain in detention pending trial.
Also former defense minister Mikael Harutyunyan is wanted by the law-enforcement authorities as a defendant in the case.
The likely successor of Yuri Khachaturov, Vagharshak Harutyunyan, 62, worked on different positions in Armenia’s defense.
After his conflict with Robert Kocharyan, who ruled the country from 1998 to 2008, broken over the terrorist act in the parliament in 1999, Harutyunyan was degraded from lieutenant general to major general, and then dismissed.
On Thursday, the Special Investigative Service of Armenia permitted Khachaturov to leave the country for his work though obliging him to come back.
Yuri Khachaturov was appointed as CSTO secretary general in 2017 for three years. -0---
