Armenian leader sacks deputy defence minister

Mediamax news agency
23 Feb 07

Yerevan, 23 February: Armenian President Robert Kocharyan today
relieved Lt-Gen Artur Aghabekyan of the post of deputy defence
minister, Mediamax learnt from the Armenian presidential press
service.

Aghabekyan said earlier this year that he had submitted his
resignation to the defence minister as he was planning to run in the
forthcoming parliamentary election [on 12 May] from the Armenian
Revolutionary Federation Dashnaktsutyun.