EU envoy talks Armenia elections with investigative committee chiefApril 13, 2017 - 21:50 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Chief of Armenia’s investigative committee Aghvan Hovsepyan and EU ambassador to the country Piotr Switalski on Thursday, April 13 discussed the parliamentary elections, held on April 2. Hovsepyan highly appreciated the cooperation with the EU delegation and attached great importance to the assistance provided by the 27-nation bloc to Armenia. Weighing in on the elections, Hovsepyan briefed the envoy on the recent developments, adding that 16 criminal cases have been launched over alleged election violations, seven of which have been sent to court. Also, the two discussed ways of boosting efficiency of the fight against various forms of violations during electoral processes and creating new tools to this end. According to the final assessment of elections provided by the Central Electoral Commission, the ruling Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) thus claims 58 mandates, including three for minority representatives (Yezidi, Assyrian and Kurdish), the Tsarukyan bloc has 31 seats overall, including one for a Russian community representative, while YELQ bloc and the Armenian Revolutionary Federation - Dashnaktsutyun get nine and seven parliamentary seats, respectively. Top stories The Cabinet of Ministers decided on Thursday, November 9 to allocated AMD 120 million to arrange the gathering. Michael Roth believes sanctions must be put on the table after Baku‘s ethnic cleansing in Nagorno-Karabakh. The Yerevan City Council has elected Tigran Avniyan from the ruling Civil Contract as the mayor of the Armenian capital. The Armenian Parliament on Tuesday, October 3 voted to ratify the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. Partner news | Russia warns Armenia against “falling into West’s trap” Zakharova maintained, however, that anything that will benefit the people of Armenia can only be welcomed. CSTO: Armenia has not participated in secretariat’s work recently Recently Armenia has not participated in the work of the secretariat of the CSTO, Imangali Tasmagambetov said. Ucom launches network modernization efforts in few regions of Armenia In particular, on March 28, the legacy Mobile Switching Subsystem will be replaced with a new one. Baku: EU, U.S. share responsibility for Armenia’s “destabilizing actions” Azerbaijan has declared that the European Union and the United States will share responsibility for any destabilizing actions of Armenia |