YEREVAN, May 11. /ARKA/. David Tonoyan, acting emergency minister, will be appointed today as defense minister, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said on Friday. 

“The decree will be signed today, and other ministers will be appointed very soon,” he told journalists after the government’s meeting.

Earlier, on May 8, Vigen Sargsyan, acting defense minister, resigned. 

“The government will be formed on the basis of national consent principles,” Pashinyan said. 

On April 23, Serzh Sargsyan, who was appointed by the Armenian parliament as prime minister amid widespread disaffection for him, resigned under the pressure of mass protests against his premiership. On the same day, Armen Sarkissian, Armenian president accepted the government’s resignation. 

On May 8, the National Assembly elected Nikol Pashinyan as prime minister by a majority of votes – 59 MPs voted for him and 42 voted against him. –0—