The Union of Writers of Armenia convened on 20 October and elected Edward Militonyan, Director of the Center for Book and Publishing, as Head of the Union with majority of votes. The voting outcome was as follows: Militonyan - 199 votes, Hovik Hoveyan - 100 votes, David Sargsyan - 24 votes, Romik Khachatryan - 4 votes.
To recall, Levon Ananyan who had headed the Union for the last years passed away in September 2013.