Armenian deputy foreign ministers resign

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08.06.2021, 16:57

Armenia's acting Deputy Prime Minister Tigran Avinyan who is replacing acting Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has formally dismissed three of the four deputy foreign ministers Avet Adonts, Artak Apitonyan and Gagik Ghalachyan.

Armenian deputy foreign ministers resign

YEREVAN, June 8. /ARKA/. Armenia's acting Deputy Prime Minister Tigran Avinyan who is replacing acting Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has formally dismissed three of the four deputy foreign ministers Avet Adonts, Artak Apitonyan and Gagik Ghalachyan.

Former acting Foreign Minister Ara Ayvazyan stepped down on May 27 after an emergency session of the Security Council which was convened to discuss the rising tensions on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border.

Speaking at a May 31 farewell meeting with the Foreign Ministry staff, Ayvazyan said: “It was an easy decision, because we owe our victims, (who fell in the 44-day war last autumn in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict zone), we owe our country. It was difficult, because I understood and realized well what a huge responsibility it was, because we had no right to be wrong. We had no right to take a step that our people, our history would not forgive us in the future.”

Gagik Ghalachyan resigned on May 31, and the rest of the deputy ministers - on June 7. The resignation of the Deputy Foreign Minister Armen Ghevondyan has not been accepted at the moment. -0-

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