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The semi-weekly 168 Zham writes that it has learnt that today the sitting of the Armenian Republican Party's executive body will take place during which the necessity and possible format of dialogue with the Armenian National Congress will be discussed. The paper says the thing is that the authorities have not decided yet in what format they will form the negotiating group – in coalition principle or not. The semi-weekly says the leader of the Prosperous Armenia Gagik Tsarukyan is not in Armenia and the party members do not know whether they are going to participate in talks or not. The paper says it has also learnt that the participants of the sitting will discuss the issue of relieving Kotayk's governor Kovalenko Shahgeldyan and Armavir's governor Ashot Ghahramyan form their offices.
The daily Haykakan Zhamanak writes that Foreign Minister of Turkey Ahmet Davutoglu had a short conversation with the Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan in a bus with which they were returning from the events dedicated to the 150th anniversary of unification of Italy. The paper says it was reported by the Turkish Hurrieyt which also informed that the Turkish minister had a long conversation with the president of Azerbaijan. The paper says it failed to receive any comments from the RA President's office about Sargsyan-Davutoglu conversation.
The daily Capital says that Armenia's Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan appointed Armen Khachatryan as the new head of the National Competitiveness Foundation of Armenia (NCFA), claiming the appointment is a violation of the law. The daily explains that according to the regulations of the foundation and the existing law the activities of the foundation are conducted by the head of the foundation that is appointed to this position or dismissed from it by the Board of Trustees.
Further, the paper presumes that there may be a misreading of the law and that PM Sargsyan may have based his decision on the section of the law that says that such appointment can for the first time be made also by the founder, in this case the government.
But the point is, the paper explains, that the government already used this right in 2008 by appointing Gayane Afrikyan as NCFA chief upon its establishment. The NCFA head in Armenia receives 6,2 million drams (approx. $14,450) in salaries – the highest in Armenia.