At Thursday’s Cabinet meeting of the government of Armenia, a decision was made to appoint Hovhannes Harutyunyan to the post of Governor of Shirak Province.

PM Nikol Pashinyan noted that Harutyunyan had previously served as Deputy Minister of Health.

As reported earlier, at the Cabinet meeting, the government had made a decision to dismiss Tigran Petrosyan from the post of Governor of Shirak Province.