The aircraft was reported to have been on a regular training mission when it crashed in the mountains in northeastern Armenia. The two pilots were named as Lieutenant Colonel Armen Babayan and Major Movses Manukyan.
Armenian prime minister Nikol Pashinyan has highlighted the importance of Armenian-Iranian relations during a speech in the town of Kapan, the regional capital of Armenia's Syunik Province which borders Iran. Pashinyan was addressing a rally of his "My step" party, ahead of important parliamentary elections on 9 December.
"Candidates campaigned freely in competitive Georgia run-off, though one side enjoyed undue advantage and negative character of campaign undermined process", international observers say
After a divisive and bruising presidential election campaign Georgians now need to assess where that leaves their democracy and their country's political fabric, argues Dennis Sammut in this op-ed for commonspace.eu
In the second round of presidential elections held on Wednesday, Zurabishvili got 59.55 of the votes cast. UNM Candidate, Grigol Vashadze secured 40.45%.
Exit polls released soon after polling closed at 20.00 say that Salome Zurabishvili won the election securing 55% of the votes cast. Counting is expected to go on throughout the night