Top Armenian officials leave posts after PM Pashinyan asks for resignations
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FILE PHOTO: Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan attends a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of a summit of leaders of nations, which are members of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), at the Kremlin in Moscow, Ru
(Reuters) -Six high-ranking Armenian officials resigned on Monday, Russia's Interfax news agency reported, after Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said he had asked a number of them to step down from their positions.
"The reasons for making such a request are not personal, but systematic, something which I have spoken about publicly," Pashinyan wrote on Facebook on Monday.
The officials were reported to include Vahe Ghazaryan, the interior minister; Karen Andreasyan, chairman of the Supreme Judicial Council; Sasun Khachatryan, chairman of the Anti-Corruption Committee; Argishti Kyaramyan, chairman of the Investigative Committee; Gnel Sanosyan, the territorial administration and infrastructures minister; and Rustam Badasian, chairman of the State Revenue Committee.
(Reporting by Reuters; Writing by Lucy PapachristouEditing by Andrew Osborn)
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