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According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, an online pre-registration platform for obtaining biometric documents will be launched on October 31. Applications can be submitted with or without strict identification; in the latter case, the data will be cross-checked against the State Population Register.
On October 20, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan announced that the board of the Civil Contract party had decided to appoint MP Lilit Stepanyan as governor of Kotayk Province, and that she will give up her parliamentary mandate.
Minister of Education, Science, Culture and Sport Zhanna Andreasyan received a group of representatives of the scientific community on October 20 to discuss sector-related issues.
Konstantin Sokolov, head of the TRIPP+ fund and an American investor, told Bloomberg in an interview that he plans to expand investments in Armenia's copper sector and, starting next year, export output from the Teghout mine to the United States instead of China.
Georgia hosted the 17th International Memorial Tournament in honor of Murad Dokhtarashvili and Zaur Sheilidze, featuring wrestlers born in 2007–2009.
On October 20, Catholicos of All Armenians Garegin II received at the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin clergy of the Catholic Church's Diocese of Trieste (Italy), who visited Armenia on a pilgrimage led by the diocesan head, Bishop Enrico Trevisi.
Armenia's Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sport and Belgium's Ghent University have remotely signed a memorandum of understanding on conducting Armenian studies courses.
