Armenia’s new cabinet to be formed after the expected resignation of the current government next month will not include a key ministry set up shortly before the country’s formal accession to a Russian-led trade bloc in 2015, it transpired during the debate on adjustments in the government structure in parliament on Tuesday.
The National Assembly agreed on Tuesday to debate an opposition-drafted resolution condemning the use of lethal force against opposition protesters in Yerevan in the wake of Armenia’s disputed 2008 presidential election.
Outgoing President Serzh Sarkisian may heighten political tensions in Armenia if he decides to become prime minister and thus extend his decade-long rule, opposition leader Nikol Pashinian warned on Friday.
Opposition lawmakers denounced as unconstitutional on Thursday government plans to create the post of first deputy prime minister who will be appointed after Armenia becomes a parliamentary republic in April.
Senior government and Central Bank officials downplayed the impact of recent increases in the prices of fuel and some foodstuffs in Armenia during parliamentary hearings held on Tuesday.
The National Assembly voted unanimously on Wednesday to raise the minimum gambling age in Armenia and introduce much heavier fines for casinos and bookmakers failing to enforce it.
The opposition Yelk alliance has called on Armenians to take to the streets on January 19 and protest against the latest increases in the prices of fuel and some foodstuffs.
A senior member of the European Parliament on Wednesday stressed the significance of Armenia’s new agreement with the European Union, saying that it will help to put the country in a “real position of strength.”
A senior representative of businessman Gagik Tsarukian’s alliance said on Tuesday that it has not yet decided whom to nominate or endorse for the post of Armenia’s next president who will be elected by parliament in March.
Opposition lawmakers faulted the government for Armenia’s increased public debt on Wednesday as the National Assembly lifted a legal limit on further government borrowing.
The Armenian government has moved to abolish a legal limit on the size of the country’s public debt which has tripled in the past decade.
Finance Minister Vartan Aramian declined to clarify on Monday whether he considers realistic President Serzh Sarkisian’s latest forecast that Armenia’s per capita income will triple, in dollar terms, in the next “several” years.
Law-enforcement authorities in Armenia have dropped criminal charges against a 32-year-old woman who has admitted killing her reportedly violent husband in May.
A pro-Western opposition alliance renewed its calls for Armenia to leave the Russian-led Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) during parliamentary hearings in Yerevan on Monday.
The Central Bank of Armenia plans to introduce new, composite banknotes in 2018, gradually removing the current ones from circulation.
A senior official from Nagorno-Karabakh said on Friday that it is still too early to speak of territorial concessions to Azerbaijan that would be part of a broader Armenian-Azerbaijani peace deal.
A senior official in Yerevan said on Friday that Armenia’s and Azerbaijan’s foreign ministers are planning to hold fresh talks on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict to try to build on understandings reportedly reached by their presidents last month.
Defense Minister Vigen Sargsian urged Armenian media on Tuesday to stop questioning his past military service, reiterating that he had never evaded conscription.
A Danish state agency has decided to withdraw an export credit guarantee for a $62 million investment in Armenia’s second largest copper mine, accusing its private owner of failing to comply with environmental standards.
Armenia’s state anti-trust regulators have expressed concern at a lack of competition in supplies of goods and services to various government agencies, saying that this might fuel corrupt practices.
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