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The regular session of the National Assembly of Armenia started its work on Tuesday. Before beginning the legislative work, the NA Speaker Alen Simonyan proposed the deputies to honour in one-minute silence the memory of the serviceman, killed on August 16 asa result of border provocation of the Azerbaijani forces. 

To remind, on August 16, at around 18:10, the subdivisions of the Azerbaijani Armed Forces once again resorted to provocation, firing from different caliber firearms at the Armenian positions located in the Gegharkunik section of the Armenian-Azerbaijani border. A serviceman of the military unit N of the RA Armed Forces, private Arman Hovhannes Hakobyan, born in 2002, received a fatal gunshot wound as a result of an intense firefight.

On the same day at around 09:50, a serviceman of the RA Armed Forces,  senior non-commissioned officer Vahan Dimik Tatosyan, born in 1975, received a fatal gunshot wound from a shot fired by the enemy sniper in the direction of Nakhichevan on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border, in the Yeraskh section.