YEREVAN. – Armenian National Assembly (NA) Speaker Hovik Abrahamyan is not in the country, the sources of Armenian News-NEWS.am have informed.  

To verify this information, Armenian News-NEWS.am contacted the NA speaker’s spokeswoman, Gohar Poghosyan, and she confirmed this news.  

“Mr. Abrahamyan has taken an unpaid leave of absence from [Monday,] April 15 to [Friday,] 19, and he is abroad,” she noted. 

To the query as to the reason for Hovik Abrahamyan’s trip abroad, Poghosyan responded: “On private matters.”