Armenian PM Pashinyan Says He Has Asked Various Officials to Step Down

18/11/2024 19:49

        Six high-ranking Armenian officials resigned on Monday,
        Russia's Interfax news agency reported, after Prime Minister
        Nikol Pashinyan said he had asked a number of them to step down
        from their positions.
        
        "The reasons for making such a request are not personal, but
        systematic, something which I have spoken about publicly,"
        Pashinyan wrote on Facebook on Monday.
        
        The officials were reported to include Vahe Ghazaryan, the
        interior minister; Karen Andreasyan, chairman of the Supreme
        Judicial Council; Sasun Khachatryan, chairman of the
        Anti-Corruption Committee; Argishti Kyaramyan, chairman of the
        Investigative Committee; Gnel Sanosyan, the territorial
        administration and infrastructures minister; and Rustam
        Badasian, chairman of the State Revenue Committee.