YEREVAN.-  Armenian second president Robert Kocharyan filed a lawsuit against Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, Armenian News - NEWS.am learnt from judicial information system.

The lawsuit was filed on September 17. The ex-president has filed a lawsuit in Yerevan's Common Jurisdiction Court against Pashinyan to protect his honor and dignity from public slander.

Robert Kocharyan's representative Hayk Alumyan told Hetq.am that the reason for submitting a lawsuit was the public statement of Nikol Pashinyan during his visit to France, which referred to Robert Kocharyan.