I’m not going to resign since I made promises to the people and am fulfilling them step-by-step. This is what Mayor of Yerevan Hayk Marutyan said during a question-and-answer session following today’s session of the Council of Elders of Yerevan. Touching upon the news about his appointment to the position of Armenia’s Ambassador to the Czech Republic, he said the following with irony: “Before that, I was appointed Ambassador to the United States and was preparing to accept the position of Ambassador to Japan.”

Member of the opposition Prosperous Armenia faction Marcos Harutyunyan asked Marutyan to find a way to dissolve the Council of Elders of Yerevan in case he is dismissed because none of the representatives of the Council of Elders deserves to hold the position of mayor of Yerevan.

Harutyunyan also called on the mayor to admit that, unlike him, the former municipal authorities built 10 new apartment buildings and solved the problem with 20-30 accident-prone buildings, while Marutyan is trying to avoid taking responsibility for solving the issues facing Yerevan.