Armenia president says fully trusts current government, PM KarapetyanJune 29, 2017 - 12:55 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - President Serzh Sargsyan on Thursday, June 29 said that the current staff of the government, headed by prime minister Karen Karapetyan, enjoys the full confidence of himself and his political team. “In the parliamentary elections, the Republican Party received the people’s votes to continue its work,” Sargsyan told a government session. “The mandate we received was enough for us to form a government with the Republican resources only. But we decided to continue with the previously-established format, creating a government with the Armenian Revolutionary Federation - Dashnaktsutyun (ARFD), a government capable of implementing all of our tasks.” The team, according to the president, will be united not only in the government and the National Assembly, but also in regional government bodies. The Armenian opposition has been insisting on some clarity about the position of the prime minister after Sargsyan’s term as president ends in 2018. Various RPA officials have said Karapetyan will continue heading the cabinet, but the opposition has expressed doubts that Sargsyan will take the helm of the government instead. Top stories President of the Armenian parliament Alen Simonyan met with the Speaker of the Azerbaijani Milli Majlis Sahiba Gafarova. Achieving stable peace between Armenia and Azerbaijan remains a priority of the OSCE, said Ian Borg. 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. Partner news | Yeremyan Projects opens state-of-the-art dairy production plant Yeremyan Projects officially launched the Yeremyan Products state-of-the-art milk processing plant in Yerevan on May 24. Azerbaijan's defense spending set to increase by 11% Azerbaijan's spending on defense and national security will increase by 11%, according to a fresh bill. Armenian PM’s helicopter makes emergency landing in Vanadzor The helicopter transporting Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan made an emergency landing in Vanadzor. Lavrov says envoys “periodically” summoned for consultations Sergei Lavrov has commented Moscow’s summoning of Russian Ambassador to Armenia Sergei Kopyrkin. |