RPA unveils nominees for posts of parliament speaker, deputy speakersMay 17, 2017 - 22:05 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - The ruling Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) will nominate Ara Babloyan for the post of the National Assembly speaker, and Eduard Sharmazanov and Arpine Hovhannisyan for those of the deputy speakers, Sharmazanov himself told reporters. As reported earlier, the third deputy speaker of the Armenian parliament will become Mikayel Melkumyan from Tsarukyan bloc. Babloyan is a pediatric urologist, who was first elected a member of parliament in 2007. Sharmazanov has been a lawmaker since 2007 and deputy speaker since 2012. Hovhannisyan was elected deputy of the National Assembly in 2012 and was in 2015 appointed the minister of justice. Also, six other MPs from RPA will head various committees. 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 clarifying reports on Baku’s alleged arms supply to Ukraine Russia says is carefully working to verify reports about alleged arms supplies from Azerbaijan to Ukraine 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. |