YEREVAN. – Ruling Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) MP Samvel Farmanyan will replace Arpine Hovhannisyan in the Armenian National Assembly (NA) delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE).

“The National Assembly President proposed, and I agreed,” Farmanyan told Armenian News-NEWS.am.

On September 4, RPA MP Arpine Hovhannisyan was appointed Minister of Justice of Armenia.

Subsequently, “European Integration” NGO Chairman and political scientist Karen Bekaryan replaced Hovhannisyan in the parliament.

But it is not yet decided who will replace Arpine Hovhannisyan as Chairperson of the NA Ad Hoc Committee on Ethics.