Arsen Ќaratyan dismissed from the post of  Prime Minister`s adviser

ArmInfo. By the decision of the head of the Government of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan, Arsen Haratyan was dismissed from the post of adviser to the Prime Minister.

Pashinyan's decision was published on the official website of the Armenian government. "Guided by Part 10, Article 9 of the Law of the Republic of Armenia" On Civil Service ", to release Arsen Kharatyan from the post of adviser to the Prime Minister according to his own statement," the decision of the Government head  says. Earlier Arsen Haratyan on his Facebook page reported that on August 23 he had submitted a statement of resignation to Nikol Pashinyan. The decision, as explained by Kharatyan, is due to two important circumstances.

"My family who lives in Tbilisi and will stay there until at least the summer of 2019. And secondly, there is a need to rethink and accurately assess the personal transformations that  I have faced  in these  three months in the civil service," he wrote. As Kharatian stressed, before moving to the civil service, Pashinyan set before him a clear task: this situation should not be that one part of the month he was in Yerevan, and the second - in Tbilisi. "Then I confidently answered that this will not happen.For these months my working pace has been very intense, and now I understand that we need to take a break to stay close to my family and assess the way we've traveled," Kharatyan wrote. He stressed that he will continue to help Nikol Pashinyan.

Arsen Haratyan was appointed as an advisor to the Armenian Prime Minister on foreign policy issues in June 2018. He graduated from the Faculty of Oriental Studies of Yerevan State University, studied at George Mason University (USA). Was a correspondent for the Armenian service of the Voice of America.  In Tbilisi, he founded the Armenian-Georgian news media project "Aliq Media" - Aliq Media.

We note that, according to rumors rumored in the media, Arsen Kharatyan can be appointed ambassador of Armenia to Georgia. It is noted that the wife of Arsen Kharatyan - Sonia Shahrigian (Sonia Shahrigian) currently works in a diplomatic position in the US Embassy in Tbilisi, being a US citizen. Recall also that Arsen Kharatyan himself, surrounded by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, was earlier named one of the main persons responsible for the scandal with the arrest and further release on bail of the CSTO Secretary General Yuri Khachaturov.