ArmInfo. At the suggestion of the Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan and by the decree of the RA President Armen Sarkissian, vice-premiers and a number of ministers of the new Cabinet were appointed.
Thus, the deputy prime minister from the "Elk" bloc Ararat Mirzoyan became the first deputy prime minister, Tigran Avinyan, the press secretary of the "Civil Contract" party, vice-premier. The Minister of Defense, as it was announced, has already been appointed ex-Minister of Emergency Situations David Tonoyan. The Ministry of Education and Science will be headed by Araik Harutyunyan, member of the Civil Contract, Minister of Territorial Administration is Armen Papikyan, and the Minister of Diaspora - Mkhitar Hairapetyan.