Serzh Sargsyan could not but appoint 'a man like him' to the post of the Syunik Governor, Aram Manukyan, a parliamentarian from the oppositional Armenian National Congress, told ArmInfo when commenting on Suyrik Khachatryan's return to the above post.
"The authorities choose the men like them, and there is nothing surprising in it. Bravo Serzh Sargsyan! Bravo!" said Manukyan, who was truly surprised to hear such news.
To recall, Khachatryan resigned from the post of the Syunik Governor following shootouts in front of his house on June 2 2013 when the former candidate for Goris mayor Avo Budaghyan was killed and his brother Artak Budaghyan, a commander at a military unit in the NKR was wounded. There was another wounded, Nikolay Arustamyan, a relative and bodyguard of Governor Suren Khachartyan.
Syunik Governor Suren Khachatryan's son, Tigran Khachatryan, was arrested over the shootouts. Earlier, the governor's bodyguard Zarzand Nikoghosyan was arrested over the case. However, the Court terminated the case and set free the Governor's son and his friend.
To calm down the tensions in Syunik, parliamentarian Vahe Hakobyan, the son of Zangezour copper and molybdenum plant's ex-director Maksim Hakobyan, was appointed as Syunik Governor. However, according to ArmInfo's data, Surik Khachatryan, who enjoys the support of the country's leadership, put a spoke in the young governor's wheel. Actually, Vahe Hakobyan was reluctant to send in his resignation.