YEREVAN. – I will be appointed Minister of Energy and Natural Resources.

Ruling Republican Party of Armenia MP Vardan Ayvazyan, who is also Chairman of the National Assembly Standing Committee on Economic Affairs, told the aforementioned to Armenian News-NEWS.am.

Ayvazyan made this statement in response to the query on whether he may be included in the new Cabinet. 

“There is information that newly appointed Prime Minister Hovik Abrahamyan wants to see Vardan Ayvazyan, who was former Nature Protection Minister and to whose family some mines belong, in the position of Minister of Energy and Natural Resources,” Zhamanak daily had reported on Saturday.