YEREVAN. - Secretary of ARF Dashnaktsutyun parliamentary faction Aghvan Vardanyan on Friday confirmed to Armenian News – NEWS.am the information that the Governor of the country’s Shirak province, Hovsep Simonyan, has been relieved of his duties. Deputy Minister of Territorial Administration and Development, Artur Khachatryan, will replace him in that post.

According to Vardanyan, the change of the governor is conditioned by the need to give new solutions to the priorities. However, he declined to answer the question as to whether Hovsep Simonyan was not able to propose such solutions.