Yerevan: Alen Simonyan elected President of National AssemblyAugust 2, 2021 - 19:20 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Alen Simonyan from Armenia's ruling Civil Contract party has been elected as the President of the National Assembly. 71 lawmakers on Monday, August 2 voted in favor of the appointment in the post of Simonyan, who previously served as a Deputy Speaker of parliament. The opposition Armenia and "I Have Honor" blocs did not participate in voting. Former mayor of Meghri Mkhitar Zakaryan from Armenia bloc and Sisian mayor Artur Sargsyan from "I Have Honor" alliance were nominated for the position too. Top stories The Cabinet of Ministers decided on Thursday, November 9 to allocated AMD 120 million to arrange the gathering. Michael Roth believes sanctions must be put on the table after Baku‘s ethnic cleansing in Nagorno-Karabakh. The Yerevan City Council has elected Tigran Avniyan from the ruling Civil Contract as the mayor of the Armenian capital. The Armenian Parliament on Tuesday, October 3 voted to ratify the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. Partner news | Russia clarifying reports on Baku’s alleged arms supply to Ukraine Russia says is carefully working to verify reports about alleged arms supplies from Azerbaijan to Ukraine Russia warns Armenia against “falling into West’s trap” Zakharova maintained, however, that anything that will benefit the people of Armenia can only be welcomed. CSTO: Armenia has not participated in secretariat’s work recently Recently Armenia has not participated in the work of the secretariat of the CSTO, Imangali Tasmagambetov said. Ucom launches network modernization efforts in few regions of Armenia In particular, on March 28, the legacy Mobile Switching Subsystem will be replaced with a new one. |