Presidential candidate from the Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) Armen Sarkissian held separate meetings with the representatives of RPA and ARF Dashnaktsutyun party on Monday evening.
Talking to reporters, Armen Sarkissian said he will decide on taking the office after his meetings with the representatives of all political groups.
Following the meeting, ARF Dashnaktsutyun party said they are ready to support Armen Sarkissian's candidacy.
On Tuesday, the candidate held a meeting at the Armenian National Academy of Sciences.
The Armenian Nuclear Power Plant should be shut down as soon as possible, EU diplomat told reporters at the fifth EU-Armenia subcommittee meeting which has kicked off Tuesday in Armenia’s capital city of Yerevan.
In Lorenz’s words, however, they realize that energy security is important to Armenia, and this needs to be considered.
Armenian Deputy Energy Minister Hayk Harutyunyan, in his turn, added that as a result of the Armenia-EU talks, it was clearly specified that Armenia shall submit a roadmap toward decommissioning the operating power unit of its nuclear plant. “Most of the $300-million investments of the program to extend the operation period of the NPP go to the raising of the safety standards. This extension is planned for a ten-year period, after which decommissioning is planned; there is nothing extraordinary here.”
Armenian Investigative Committee established the identity of a woman who had left a newborn in Armenia’s Proshyan village.
The child was found under a tree in the morning on August 12, 2017
Police identified the mother of the child. According to preliminary data, the woman gave birth at home, and then decided to get rid of the baby, leaving her in the garden.
Two Russian-Armenian businessmen are included in the list of 210 Russian officials and billionaires having close links to Russian president Vladimir Putin.
The so- called “Kremlin Report” that was published by U.S. Treasury Department on Tuesday includes the names of 114 senior political figures and 96 oligarchs. Among them are the founder of Tashir group Samvel Karapetyan and co-owner of Rosgosstrakh Danil Khachaturov.
Armenian MP Nikol Pashinyan wrote on Facebook that the Italian police besieged his hotel room in Rome to arrest him because of being on Interpol’s wanted list.
Later in the day Armenian police clarified that after Pashinyan’s arrest in 2009, the local office informed “the Interpol General Secretariat about the suspension of international search for him, and later all Member States have been informed by the General Secretariat.”
In July 2009 Nikol Pashinyan handed himself in to police and was later sentenced to seven years in prison. He was released by an amnesty in 2011.
Neither Armenian nationals, nor ethnic Armenians were injured after ceiling collapsed at a Tbilisi metro station on Tuesday, spokesperson for Armenian Foreign Ministry Tigran Balayan said.
At least 14 people were injured after ceiling collapsed in Tbilisi’s Varketili subway station.
The starting price of Samsung’s Galaxy S9 smartphone will be around $890-935, RIA Novosti reported quoting ETNews website.
Samsung is set to introduce bradn new Galaxy S9 and S9 + on February 25 - the day before the start of Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
Arsenal have reminded about their forthcoming English Premier League football match against Swansea City through their newcomer, Henrikh Mkhitaryan.
The Gunners have posted the 29-year-old Armenia midfielder’s moving picture with the caption, “It’s MATCHDAY,” on their Twitter account.
