Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said on Wednesday that Chief of General Staff Onik Gasparyan is considered dismissed, according to the Ministry of Defense of Armenia.

It came as Armenian President Armen Sarkissian refused to sign a decree on Gasparyan's dismissal and did not submit the draft document to the Constitutional Court. This move implied automatic dismissal of the military chief.

(Cover: Chief of General Staff Onik Gasparyan. /Ministry of Defense of Armenia)