During today’s Cabinet meeting, the Armenian government approved the subsidizing program for interest rates of loans for the agricultural sector.
Requests for 6 thousand people from 15 thousand were granted. Sanctions for another 22 thousand people, whose violations were very insignificant and who were hesitating to leave the country, were abolished.
President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan sent a message on the joint session on “Small Transition Economies: Local Answers to Global Challenges” organized by the Boris Minz Institute and the Russian-Armenian University, wishing them fruitful work and efficacious discussions.
Armenia is included in the report as a country meeting the minimum requirements of fiscal transparency for 2017.
Power supply to three million consumers was restored on September 11, Florida authorities said.
The blogger was found guilty for illegal border crossing under Article 318 – the infamous and illicit “law” which defines criminal proceedings for foreigners who visit Nagorno Karabakh “without authorization of Azerbaijan.
The Armenian Armed Forces today are in a state of combat readiness and are able to fulfill their military tasks, defense minister Vigen Sargsyan said during the Q&A session in the Parliament in response to the question of Yelk faction head Nikol Pashinyan.
He added that the path taken by the government at the moment is sufficient to some extent. At the same time he stated that they are dissatisfied with the implementation process of several programs and would like to have better results.
He added that the visits are not an end in itself. “If we do not visit, it doesn’t mean that we have no agenda with Western countries and their investors, or we are not discussing these topics. Such visits are expected in near future which will be held when we have an agenda and a topic to talk about so that the visit will not be turned into a travel”, he stated.
SME Investments provided 2,3 billion drams in loans in privileged conditions to 63 businesses in the reporting period.
