Armenia’s former MP Hovhannes Aharonyan has died at the age of 56. ARF Dashnaktsutyun Party Supreme Body member Artsvik Minasyan informed this on his Facebook page.

"My aunt's son, Hovhannes Aharonyan, has untimely died from a severe illness," he wrote, in part. “Aharonyan was 56 years old.

In 1995-1999, he was a deputy of the National Assembly. He tabled and actively participated in the adoption of a number of pro-national decisions related to the self-determination of the NKR and the release of Diaspora Armenian political prisoners."