Chairman of the Supreme Judicial Council of Armenia Ruben Vardazaryan and three members Stepan Mikaelyan, Armen Haykyants, and Mesrop Makyan refused to participate in today's meeting with Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, Mediaport Telegram channel reported.

According to them, such a meeting with the Prime Minister, which is also attended by the Prosecutor General, the Chair of the Investigative Committee, the head of the Special Investigative Service of the republic, contradicts the constitutional status of the Supreme Judicial Council and is illegal.

At today's meeting with Nikol Pashinyan, the state of the investigation of individual criminal cases was discussed. The director of the National Security Service, heads of investigative bodies, Minister of Justice Rustam Badasya, and Assistant to the Prime Minister Anna Vardapetyan were sitting next to those participating in the meeting.