The Prime Minister and the Speaker of Parliament honored the memory of those killed in the terrorist attack on October 27, 1999.

ArmInfo. RA Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, together with RA National Assembly Speaker Ruben Rubinyan, paid tribute to the memory of those killed as a result of the terrorist act committed on October 27, 1999.

The prime minister and the parliament speaker laid flowers at the memorial to the victims of the terrorist attack,  installed in the park on the grounds of the National Assembly.

It should be noted that on October 27 October 1999, an armed group of five people led by former journalist Nairi Hunanian broke into the session hall of the National Assembly of Armenia and opened fire, killing 8 people, including the prime minister and the parliament speaker.  Prominent state and political figures were killed in the attack: Karen Demirchyan - chairman of the National Assembly,  Vazgen Sargsyan - prime minister, Yuri Bakhshyan - deputy speaker of parliament, Ruben Miroyan - deputy speaker of parliament, Leonard Petrosyan - minister for operational matters, Armenak Armenakyan - member of parliament, Mikhail Kotanyan - member of parliament, Genrik Abrahamyan - member of parliament.  The trial concluded in December 2003. Six defendants were sentenced to life imprisonment, while one (Hamlet Stepanyan) was sentenced to 14 years in prison.

In December 2019, it was announced that the investigation had resumed.

Almost 7 years later, on October 27, 2026, the RA Prosecutor General's Office reported that, as part of the investigation into the case, more than a dozen interrogations and additional interrogations had been conducted, and requests had been sent to obtain information.  During this time, the supervisory body also issued three instructions to the operational body to carry out operational-search measures.  By decision of the prosecutor, several classified documents were seized and examined, and confidential investigative actions are being carried out.