Armenian Justice Minister resigns

Armenian Justice Minister Artak Zeynalyan has submitted his resignation, Report informs citing Zeynalyan's Facebook post.

"In this historic period for our people, accepting the mandate of the Minister was a super-responsible step, but one aimed at finding step-by-step solutions for legal issues that arose during my activity as a human rights defender," Zeynalyan said.

“I am confident everything will be good….if not, then everything will be very good," he added.

Zeynalyan first became Armenia's Justice Minister following the "velvet revolution" of April-May 2018 and was reappointed after the snap parliamentary elections of December 2018.