Armenian education and science minister to attend Poroshenko’s swearing-in ceremony

Artur Atabekyan has been elected Chairman of the Supreme Judicial Council of Armenia (SJC), the media and public relations service of the Judiciary reports.

MP Hovik Aghazaryan from the pro-government Civil Contract party has refused to give up his seat in the National Assembly despite the request of Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan.

The government of the Netherlands is interested in developing relations with Armenia, particularly in the areas of promoting democratic reforms, expanding economic ties, and strengthening Armenia-EU relations.

Armenian Defence Minister Suren Papikyan received on Friday the Russian Ambassador to Armenia Sergey Kopyrkin and the newly appointed attaché of the Russian Embassy on defence issues Colonel Alexander Goryanov.

Deputy Prime Ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan Mher Grigoryan and Yagub Eyubov had a brief conversation on the sidelines of a gathering in Russia that bought together top officials from several former Soviet republics, which are members of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS).

The issue of whether or not residents of Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) receive Armenian citizenship is also directly related to the prospect and right to return to their homeland, said Gegham Stepanyan, a human rights defender in Artsakh.