YEREVAN. – Mikayel Manukyan will replace Armenian National Assembly (NA) former deputy Vahan Hovhannisyan at the opposition ARF Dashnaktsutyun NA Faction, ARF MP Artsvik Minasyan told Armenian News-NEWS.am.   

In Minasyan’s words, the ARF Supreme Body held a session and made such a decision.

“Mikayel Manukyan is the next number on the [ARF] list. He is chairman of the ARF Supreme Body. He was an MP in the past, too, and he has the necessary knowledge,” Artsvik Minasyan added. 

President Serzh Sargsyan had signed a decree, on December 28, 2013, on appointing Vahan Hovhannisyan as Armenia’s Ambassador to Germany.