Today an extraordinary session of the government chaired by First Deputy Prime Minister Karen Karapetyan, was held. The extraordinary session, according to Article 7 (14) of the RA Law “On the Structure and Functioning of the Government,” and based on the statement made by the Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan, the Prime Minister stated the impossibility of his powers.

According to point 5 of Annex 4 to the Decree of the Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia of 21April, 2018 “On establishing the order of replacing the prime minister in cases of impossibility of the Prime Minister to exercise powers”, the Prime Minister is replaced by the First Deputy Prime Minister in case of impossibility of fulfillment of the Prime Minister’s powers.