Overview
- Cabinet approved a draft Land Code amendment removing the Armenian Apostolic Church’s right to receive state or municipal land in ownership, while preserving free use provisions, and sent the bill to parliament.
- The government ordered the abolition of the tele‑radio company that carried the church’s Shoghakat channel and set a 15‑day deadline to form a liquidation commission.
- Public Broadcaster authorities must transfer the company’s documents, assets, cash, securities and property rights to the liquidation commission.
- Minister of Territorial Administration and Infrastructure David Khudatyan presented both the land measure and the broadcaster liquidation resolution.
- The steps unfold within Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s push to “renew” the church’s leadership, with reported plans to replace Catholicos Garegin II, as four senior hierarchs remain jailed and diaspora figures decry the arrest of benefactor Samvel Karapetyan.