“We have reached the point where though we have to think about saving money, restricting and adopting a conservative budget, we have managed to effectively withstand the challenges, ensure economic growth, raise the competitiveness of the economy, and expand export volumes. The policy of just relying on external donations loans is already in the past,” he added.

“Armenia’s economic immunity has greatly changed during these years, we have managed to develop all the institutions that are able to well mitigate all the external negative waves and prevent them from reaching our people, families with no obstacles,” Serzh Sargsyan said, noting that Armenia recorded 29.3% economic growth in the period of 2007-2015, while the growth is assessed at 32% by the IMF.

“This process will cover all the country after the hospitals in Mingachevir and Yevlakh districts make use of compulsory health insurance. It will be introduced in most parts of the country in 2018.”

During the NATO parliamentary assembly sitting, Armenian delegates put Turkish FM Mevlut Cavusoglu in a ridiculous situation, who held a Q&A with lawmakers after delivering a report. During a briefing on November 25 in the Parliament, head of the Armenian delegation to NATO PA Koryun Nahapetyan said Cavusoglu spoke about frozen conflicts in his report, and mentioned the Nagorno Karabakh conflict.

The issue of defining consumer tariffs of natural gas by Gazprom Armenia was discussed at the November 25 session of the Public Services Regulatory Commission. The PSRC decided to set the following tariffs for natural gas sold by Gazprom Armenia to consumers.

“There is a greater threat that the conflict could evolve I mean the small conflict could become a large-scale one. But still I don’t think that will happen by an accident. I will disagree with the worries of the civil society organizations. I worry that one side will feel provoked and design a military action.”

Drop of beer production volumes and import growth. What should the state do in such cases? Support local producer/exporter or at least not create issues for them?

“It will contribute to the mutually beneficial cooperation in the transportation field, will provide favorable conditions between the two countries, as well as will facilitate the transit cargo shipments and passenger transportation through the territories of the two states to the third countries,” the Minister said.

The European Parliament adopted the proposal on freezing Turkey’s EU membership talks, Anadolu reports. 479 MEPs voted in favor of the proposal, 37 were against. 107 MEPs abstained. Although this is non-binding proposal, it is an important message to the EU and the leadership of the Union’s member states.

“By assuming the position of the Prime Minister, I became the participant to change, assuming my burden of responsibility. On account of this all I made a decision to join the Republican Party of Armenia,” PM Karen Karapetyan stated at today’s session, stating that President of RPA and Armenia Serzh Sargsyan invited him to the position of the Prime Minister.”