News.am daily digest: 14.06.2019

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A soldier of Karabakh Defense Army was fatally wounded in fire by Azerbaijani side at a military outpost in the northern direction of the line of contact.

Artyom Khachatryan (born in 1999) was killed at around 5:05p.m. Thursday. An investigation has been launched, the Defense Army said in a statement.

According to the military registration office of the Vayots Dzor Province, the military serviceman was from the Malishka village of Armenian Vayots Dzor Province and was going to be demobilized in 20 days.

The Armenian Investigation Committee initiated on Friday a criminal case on the fact of the murder of a soldier.

Artsakh President, in his turn, signed a decree, awarding a soldier with the Medal for Service in Battle, and in recognition of his bravery during the defense of the Artsakh state border.

Russian Ambassador Sergey Kopirkin on Thursday visited the office of Armenia’s second President Robert Kocharyan and met with him.

The talks reportedly lasted more than an hour and were held in a tête-à-tête format.

According to the statement, issued by the Russian embassy on Friday, the meeting was held within scheduled meetings with representatives of political and business circles.

"As part of his regular meetings with representatives of the socio-political and business circles, the extraordinary and plenipotentiary ambassador of Russia to Armenia, Sergey Kopyrkin, met with the second president of Armenia, Robert Kocharyan,” the statement said.

On June 20, the next meeting of the Foreign Ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan is scheduled to take place in Washington D.C., under the auspices of the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs, Armenia MFA’s press service reported.

“Following the meetings held in Paris in January and in Moscow in April, consideration was given to hold the next meeting of the Foreign Ministers in the third Co-Chair country - the United States. As it was before, this time as well the participants agreed to announce the meeting simultaneously. Armenia respects that agreement,” the statement said.

Other members of Armenia’s Supreme Judicial Council, a state body overseeing Armenia’s courts, have submitted their resignations on Thursday and Friday.

Accordingly, members of the Supreme Judicial Council of Armenia Armen Khachatryan and Sergey Meghryan have submitted their resignations.

In his application for resignation, Meghryan asked to consider his powers terminated during the upcoming session of the Council, providing parliamentary forces to replenish, through a transparent procedure, the Council with another member who has the experience, high professional qualities, is publicly perceivable and has the ability to act independently.

US Congresswoman, a member of the Armenian Caucus Jackie Speier has called on the US government to allocate $40,000,000 to Armenia.

In her speech, Speier stated that impressive changes have taken place in Armenia over the past year.

“The revolution in Armenia was followed by fair elections that helped bring Nikol Pashinyan to power. Recently, his administration signed a 2-3-year $60,000,000 agreement with the US government for economic growth and improvement of public administration. Although we can applaud these efforts, they are not enough. The US supports those changes and provides resources,” the Congresswoman said.

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