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Armenia Police chief Valeriy Osipyan has submitted a resignation letter on Tuesday…

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ARMENIA POLICE CHIEF RESIGNS

Armenia Police chief Valery Osipyan has submitted a resignation letter on Tuesday.

According to Armenian News - NEWS. am, Osipyan wrote his resignation letter after the session of the Security Council held under the chairmanship of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan.

The decree was signed Wednesday by Armenian President Armen Sarkissian.

According to Osipyan, he will talk about the reasons for his resignation later.

“From now on, I will continue to serve my people on the same principles and principles of morality. I'll talk about the reasons for my resignation later,” he said.

Arman Sargsyan, first deputy head of the Armenian Police, has been appointed acting Chief of Police.

EX-POLICE CHIEF CHARGED

Charges have been brought against former Chief of Police Vladimir Gasparyan of Armenia in connection with the abuse of power by some officials at the MOD, the Investigative committee reported.

Gasparyan, being the MOD Chief of Military Police, head of a MOD department, and Deputy Minister of Defense at separate periods.

ARMENIAN DEFENSE MINISTER TO REPORTERS

After the resignations, Armenian Defense Minister Davit Tonoyan said he does not rule out that in a few days the Prime Minister will also dismiss him from his post.

“I do not exclude this, but there are no prerequisites or grounds for this. No one can remain in office permanently,” he told reporters on Wednesday.

He also touched upon the issue of resignation of Armenian National Security Service ex-head Artur Vanetsyan.

According to him, this resignation was a surprise to him.

The Defense Minister also commented on his Azerbaijani counterpart statement that he dreams of meeting with Armenian authorities on the battlefield.

“I believe dreaming is very good,” he said.

ANCA: CIA REPORTS CONFIRM ARTSAKH IS ARMENIAN

The Armenian National Committee of America published declassified CIA reports confirming that Artsakh is Armenian.

ANCA published photos of the document titled “Unrest in the Caucasus and the Challenge of Nationalism” (1988).

The document presents the roots of unrest in the Caucasus. It says “the 1920s settlement subordinating Nagorno-Karabakh – Armenia’s cultural and religious center – to the Azerbaijani Republic has been continual, albeit long-muted, source of Armenian frustration and concern”.

According to the document, the Azeri government failed to solve economic and demographic problems, to provide jobs, housing and education. “Azeri frustration has found outlet in attacks on Armenians,” the document says.

The paper says in the 1920s 89% of Karabakh’s population were Armenians and 10% Azerbaijanis.

SANITEK PROTESTS

A group of employees from Sanitek waste management company were staging a protest outside the Yerevan Municipality. They are demanding their salaries for August.

These Sanitek workers noted that they want to find out whom they should get their unpaid salaries from, and if they do not get them, against whom they should go to court.

The protesters attempted to block the street, but the police did not allow this, a scuffle began between them, and the law enforcement officers pushed these picketers out of the street.

According to Yerevan mayor spokesperson Hakob Karapetyan, the municipality will do so by all means possible that they can receive their salaries.

According to Sanitek's statement, the Yerevan Municipality was supposed to transfer about AMD 430 million for August to the account of Sanitek company to serve 12 administrative districts of the city. For the first half of August, the city hall transferred AMD 141 million 831 thousand 728 to the company. At the same time, the mayor’s office during this period held AMD 69 million 546 thousand 191, that is, the amount was paid for 5 out of 12 districts.

The company spent the amount transferred in the first half of August to organize its daily work.

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