YEREVAN. – Armenia’s National Assembly (NA) Speaker Hovik Abrahamyan carried out personnel changes in the NA staff’s upper and lower echelons alike, so as to have people he can trust everywhere, Hraparak daily reports.  

“He even changed the NA speakers’ long-time personal chef, [and] appointed [to this post] the daughter of Samvel Karapetyan, an opposition member who was arrested in 2008 and who now lives in the US. This is noteworthy against the backdrop of the recently warming relations between [the Prosperous Armenia Party] PAP and [the opposition bloc Armenian National Congress] ANC.   

The ‘office’ of a personal chef is very ‘delicate’ because he [or she] also serves confidential meetings, [and] dinners, and [therefore] any secondary person must be checked in such cases,” Hraparak writes.