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Armenian News - NEWS.am presents a daily digest of tops news as of 27.01.2020:

·       Armenian PM Nikol Pashinyan held a large press conference on Saturday.

He touched upon the issue of the fight against drug trafficking. According to him, it must continue.

“If you follow the reports of the police and the national security service, you will see the volume of drug trafficking,” he said. 

He also noted that Armenia will have a new police unit. The first stage of the police reform will commence this year, he added.

The PM also referred to Armenian CC head Hrayr Tovmasyan, who is charged with abuse of power.

According to him, since May 2018, Tovmasyan, has offered him his services.

As PM noted, Tovmasyan reportedly said: ’as far as I am the author of this text of the Constitution,’ he can tell about all the risks, and we can do I don’t know what things together.”

Tovmasyan in his turn, spoke on PM's statement, gives him 20 days to present facts.

Thus, PM posted the promised fact about CC head on Sunday.

“This is Hrayr Tovmasyan's pen. I'd been thinking about whether or not throwing it to the garbage bin for a long time,” he wrote, in particular, on Facebook. “In the end, I decided to keep, as a testimony of the most bizarre buttering-up, flattery I've ever seen.”

·       By the way, Henrik Hartenyan, a member of the majority My Step faction, shared a screenshot of the Armenian CC president Hrayr Tovmasyan's daughter’s Facebook page and wrote: "This is the FB of H. Tovmasyan's daughter; let me see you, people.”

Thus, some government’s supporters wrote comments to the CC head’s daughter demanding the resignation of Hrayr Tovmasyan. Other users have shamed the supporters for the words they used in relation to the young woman. Hrayr Tovmasyan's daughter was forced to delete her FB page. Armenian Ombudsman also criticized the step. In this regard, the majority of My Step faction of the Yerevan Council of Elders has convened an urgent session today to discuss Henrik Hartenyan’s dissemination of the photo.

·       Armenia’s FM Zohrab Mnatsakanyan will hold a meeting with the Azerbaijani FM, with mediation and participation of the Co-Chairs on January 29 and 30 in Geneva, Switzerland, Armenian MFA spokesperson Anna Naghdalyan wrote on her Facebook.

According to her, a wide range of issues related to the peaceful settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict will be touched upon.

·       The number of deaths from the Chinese coronavirus has risen to 80. There are 2744 confirmed cases, 461 of which are in critical condition, CNBC reported. The virus continues to spread throughout the world, despite all the measures taken. 

According to Armenian MFA statement, the Armenian embassy in China is in direct contact with the three Armenian citizens in Wuhan, and as of now there is no information on any Armenian citizens among those infected.

To prevent the entry of coronavirus from China to Armenia, by order of the head of the Food Safety Inspectorate Body (FSIB) of Armenia, import of animal products and raw materials produced in China and produced in other countries but with Chinese origin has been banned as of January 26, FSIB reported.

·       The 2020 Grammy Awards was held in Los Angeles with a three-hour show.

The show began with charismatic Lizzo’s performance of the song "Truth Hurts" for which she received The Grammy for Pop Solo Performance.

But there was sadness in the air due the death of legendary basketball player Kobe Bryant, who died in helicopter crash just hours before the awards ceremony began.

·       Kobe Bryant and his 13-year-old daughter Gianna were among those killed in a helicopter crash in California. The father and daughter were heading to Mamba basketball academy.

Ara Zobayan has been identified as a pilot of a helicopter. Armenian by origin, he was an instrument-rated pilot, Fox 5 reported.

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