ArmInfo.The package of laws on early retirement of judges of the Constitutional Court is an opportunity to leave with dignity, and this decision can in no way be qualified as humiliating. Minister of Justice Rustam Badasyan, who introduced amendments to the constitutional law "On the Constitutional Court' at meetings of the standing parliamentary commission on state and legal issues, announced this in a conversation with reporters on December 2.
ArmInfo. On a working visit to the United Arab Emirates, Armenian President Armen Sargsyan held a working meeting with the heir to the throne of Abu Dhabi, Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the UAE Armed Forces Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan and Advisor to the President of the United Arab Emirates on National Security Tahnun Bin Zayed Al Zayed Al Zayed.
ArmInfo. Armenian Ombudsman Arman Tatoyan received a delegation led by Anna Rourka, Chairperson of the Conference of International Non-Governmental Organizations of the Council of Europe.
ArmInfo.The Vardenyats Pass (from the Gegharkunik Marz) and the Sotk-Karvachar highway are closed for trucks with a trailer, and for the rest they are difficult to reach, the press service of the Ministry of Emergencies reports. According to the source, on December 2, at 11:00 a.m., there are closed and impassable roads in Armenia. On the Vardenyats pass, in the cities of Jermuk, Vayots Dzor region and Aparan of Aragatsotn region, it is snowing.
ArmInfo. I was happy to observe the positive progress of the electoral processes in Armenia in 2018 and the involvement of civil society in the formation of this institution. Head of EU Delegation to Armenia, Ambassador Andrea Viktorin announced at the closing of the Pursuing Positive Change through Empowering Civil Society Project on November 29.
ArmInfo.The Armenian Embassy in Russia issued a statement regarding the death of two Armenians on November 28 as a result of the explosion of the Pyatigorsk brewery.
ArmInfo.Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev regarded 2019 as a year of missed opportunities in the framework of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, Interfax-Azerbaijan reports.
ArmInfo.Consultations of the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs on Nagorno-Karabakh (Russia, USA, France) at the ambassadorial level will be held in Bratislava on the sidelines of the OSCE Foreign Ministers Council (Ministerial Council), which will be held in Bratislava on December 5-6. Official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, announced this on Thursday at a briefing, TASS reports.