ArmInfo.Artak Zakaryan, First Deputy Minister of Defense of Armenia, resigned. He said this on his Facebook page.

ArmInfo. There is serious progress on equipping the front line.  On March 28, during a press conference in Yerevan, Deputy Minister of Defense of Armenia,  chairman of the State Committee for the Military-Industrial Complex  David Pakhchanyan stated, answering the question what was done in the  direction of re-equipment of the front line after the April war in  2016.

ArmInfo. Obviously, the  Armenian side has some dissatisfaction with the supply of Russian  weapons to Azerbaijan. On March 28, Deputy Minister of Defense of  Armenia, Chairman of the State Military Industry Committee David  Pakhchanyan stated this during a press conference in Yerevan  commenting on the statement of the Deputy Chairman of the State Duma  Committee on CIS Affairs, Eurasian Integration and relations with  compatriots Konstantin Zatulin on reducing arms supplies to  Azerbaijan after April 2016 .

ArmInfo. On the issue of acquiring arms, Armenia  will first of all be guided by its own interests, said Deputy Defense  Minister of Armenia, Chairman of the State Military Industry  Committee David Pakhchanyan.

ArmInfo. The Armenian Defense Ministry is primarily interested in identifying all the violations in the sphere and bringing the perpetrators to justice.

ArmInfo.The youth movement "For the Development of Science", protesting against the law on "Military Commitment and the Status of a Serviceman" demands an apology from the leadership of YSU for unreasonable slander.

ArmInfo.Deputy General Secretary of NATO Rose Gottemoeller on December 18 will visit Armenia, on December 13 at a press conference in Yerevan dedicated to NATO week in Armenia, stated deputy head of the office on relations with NATO in Southern Caucasus Rosaria Puglisi. According to her, this visit is a clear example of the existence of  high-level cooperation between Armenia and NATO.

ArmInfo.There were no changes related to the right to postpone military service in the  draft law "On military service and the status of a serviceman". Armenian Deputy Defense Minister Artak Zakaryan stated about this to Radio Azatutyun.

ArmInfo.Armenian Deputy Defense Minister Artak Zakaryan participates in a high-level NATO forum on September 11-13 dedicated to strengthening moral standards in the Armed Forces.

ArmInfo. The development of the national military-industrial complex is in the number of military and political priorities of Armenia. The Deputy Minister of Defense  of Armenia Artak Zakaryan at the conference organized by the ARF  stated this on September 4.

ArmInfo. Armenia presented at the military-technical forum Army-2017 in Moscow systems for suppressing enemy optical weapons, an automated fire control system  for artillery and new modifications of the UAV.

ArmInfo.Russian Ambassador to Armenia Ivan Volynkin took part in festive events dedicated to the 190th anniversary of victory in the Oshakan battle.

ArmInfo.The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) rejected the complaint of the ex-deputy defense minister of Armenia, of September 16, 2016, the convict of the case of the "armed Norq group", the prisoner of the Yerevan-Center of the  Ministry of Justice of Armenia Vahan Shirkhanyan.

ArmInfo.First Deputy Minister  of Defense David Tonoyan received today Head of International  Committee of Red Cross in Armenia Caroline Duez and newly appointed  ICRC's regional coordinator for the missing persons Samir  Khadzimustafik.  The press-service of the Defense Ministry informs  that during the meeting issues aimed at finding information about  persons missing as a result of military actions were discussed, as  well as problems related to work implemented between the working  group of the Armenian State Commission on Prisoners of War, Hostages  and Missing Persons and ICRC delegation.

ArmInfo. During a meeting with Ann Stieglitz, Global Peace Operations Initiative (GPOI) Program Manager of the US European Command, and Timothy Byrne, GPOI Program 
Manager and person in charge of the postgraduate peacekeeping programs of the US Naval Forces, First Deputy Defense Minister of Armenia Davit Tonoyan discussed issues related to Armenia's participation in the UN peacekeeping activities