SERGE SARGSYAN WAS NAMED PRIME MINISTER, AND REPUBLICAN PARTY WILL NOT NAME DEFENSE MINISTER
The Council of the Republican Party confirmed on April 2 the decision of the executive committee of the party to name Serge Sargsyan prime minister. Speaker Tigran Torosyan, the deputy leader of the party, stated that the most experienced and suitable candidate of the party is Serge Sargsyan.
“In appointment of prime minister everything should be natural and correct. The Republican Party has several ministers in the government but I am sure that Serge Sargsyan is the most experienced and suitable candidate,” Tigran Torosyan said.
He mentioned that Serge Sargsyan’s experience and other reasons make it obvious that the Republican Party made the right decision “because appointment to such high-ranking positions is not the case when there are many candidates and competition.”
According to Tigran Torosyan, the president of Armenia must hold a political consultation with the political forces today with only a day before the deadline of appointment of prime minister. “Although it is already obvious that the coalition will endorse Serge Sargsyan,” said Tigran Torosyan after the meeting of the Council of the Republican Party. He said he thinks that by the end of the ten-day term on April 4 the president will appoint Serge Sargsyan prime minister.
With regard to the possible replacements in the government, the speaker of the National Assembly said considering the present situation the government will not change. As to combining the posts of the prime minister and the defense minister, Tigran Torosyan said it is unconstitutional. Tigran Torosyan also said the Republican Party’s Council did not discuss candidates for the office of the defense minister. “The Republican Party has never named defense ministers and will not name,” said the speaker of the National Assembly.
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- 1918 Death of Gegham Ter Karapetian, a literary figure in the provinces of the Ottoman Empire. He was a revolutionary figure and the representative for Moosh (Western Armenia) in the Ottoman Parliament.
- 1967 Solemn inauguration in Yerevan of the Genocide Monument. It is dedicated to the memory of the one million victims of the Armenian Genocide committed by the Turks - starting in 1915.
- 1974 The "Russia" movie theatre is opened in Yerevan.
- 1989 The USSR Supreme Soviet liquidates its Volsky Committee in Artsakh.
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