Armenia`s minister of justice hands in his resignation 

ArmInfo. Armenian Justice Minister Grigor Minasyan has resigned. He announced this on his  Facebook account. 

"Today I decided to follow the initiative of the National Assembly  members who demanded my resignation. I submitted my resignation to  the Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia. In a parliamentary  system of government, it will be difficult to hold on to the post of  minister if you do not have positive cooperation with at least one  MP. I was informed that I have a problem with about two dozen MPs  from the ruling Civil Contract faction. I am very grateful and will  always remember with love all the other MPs, all my colleagues in the  government who supported me, became my friends, and, of course, Prime  Minister Nikol Pashinyan, who gave me the greatest opportunity to  work together. We have done a lot with them and with their help to  reform the justice sector over the past two years. On our part, the  government program has definitely been overfulfilled in terms of the  number and quality of events. People see the built roads and schools  right away, but the results of the new arbitration system, the  reformed enforcement service, the digitalized civil process, the  created probation service and many other reforms or hundreds of  legislative and strategic "the changes will be used after some time,"  the head of the Ministry of Justice noted. He added that people have  always expected justice ministers to quickly and immediately restore  justice, but this is not the function of the minister, it is the  prerogative of law enforcement agencies and the courts. "We are  politicians whose activities are aimed at improving institutional  systems. Much has already been done in both directions. The fruits  will come soon, but already under the next ministers. Of course, it  was possible to be more patient, stay and fight for all this and  continue to calmly present the enormous work done, but I decided to  return to a more familiar environment for me. The private sector can  also contribute to the justice sector," Grigor Minasyan noted.

Earlier a group of MPs from the ruling Civil Contract faction began  collecting signatures for an appeal to the head of government  demanding the resignation of Grigor Minasyan. To collect signatures,  it was necessary to collect 24 signatures. The dissatisfaction of the  parliamentarians is caused by the fact that the government should  include a person from the ruling team. The MPs also took into account  the fact that the current Minister of Justice is the brother of the  former Ambassador to the Vatican Mikael Minasyan, the son-in-law of  the third President of the Republic of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan. The  situation was aggravated by the fact that Sirvard Gevorgyan, a  classmate of the daughter of the second President of the Republic of  Armenia Robert Kocharyan, was recently appointed to the post of  Deputy Minister. The latter, by the way, left her post after the  ensuing discussions.