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A meeting to elect a prosecutor member of the Ethics Commission under Armenia’s Prosecutor General was held on 6 November 2026, chaired by Prosecutor General Anna Vardapetyan. The election was held because the term of commission member Armen Grigoryan, head of the Prosecutor General’s Office’s Department for Crimes against Property, expires on 14 November 2026.
According to the Prosecutor General’s Office, Article 23, paragraph 2, of the Law on the Prosecutor’s Office requires a new prosecutor member of the Ethics Commission to be elected by a majority vote of the prosecutor general, deputy prosecutors general who are not commission members, heads of the office’s structural divisions, the Yerevan city prosecutor, regional prosecutors, prosecutors of Yerevan’s administrative districts and military prosecutors of garrisons.
“Armen Grigoryan was nominated as a candidate for prosecutor member of the Ethics Commission under the Prosecutor General. The election was conducted by secret ballot. Following the vote, the Counting Commission announced the results: Armen Grigoryan was elected to the Ethics Commission under the Prosecutor General with 40 votes in favour and none against,” the Prosecutor General’s Office said.
Vardapetyan congratulated Grigoryan on his re-election and stressed the importance of continuing to uphold integrity and objectivity in this highly responsible work.