In January-February of 2017, 4 million 500.1 thousand liters of brandy was produced in Armenia, Armenpress reports citing the data of the National Statistical Service. In January-February, 2016 the brandy production comprised 1 million 992.9 thousand liters, whereas in January-February of this year it exceeded the figure of last year by over 2.3 times.
National Statistical Service of Armenia issued statistics of investments for 2016. As April 1 is the silence day of election campaign, we won’t reflect to promises of political powers and their programs. Instead, we’ll introduce what snapshot we had in 2016, how much investments we had, from which countries and in which fields.
Armenian exports in JanuaryFebruary, 2017 amounted to 273 million and 696.5 thousand USD. The data released by the National Statistical Service of Armenia show this number amounted to 227 million and 976.7 thousand USD in the same period of 2016. The increase is 20.1%.
CEO of the Tufenkchi Group factory Carlo Gaspar said the factory plans to produce 350-400 thousand USD worth of production in 2017 and create 25-30 jobs. “In the future it is planned to expand production, which will result in an addition 50-60 jobs.
“It’s just that tickets under this price will be limited”, he said. In accordance to an agreement between Taron-Avia airlines and the General Department of Civil Aviation, Taron-Avia will launch regular and charter flights from April 2017 from Gyumri’s Shirak airport.
Foreign investments have become one of the most contemporary promises of this election campaign. Almost all promise investments, some—many, some—few, some give exact numbers and some—not.
“I consider realistic the programs, funding of which is already available, when there is investment program, there is funding and implementer. Under those 3 circumstances only I consider programs realistic,” Suren Karayan
Free economic zone (FEZ) in Syunik will function until October of ongoing year. Suren Karayan, Minister of Economic Development and Investments of Armenia, told reporters today.
Head of BBC regional representative offices for Armenia and several other countries Sergey Stanovkin, who is holding two-day seminar on strategic communication and tourism brand in Yerevan, says Armenia has a great future for tourism development since here everything exists except communication. He stated that the world knows little about Armenia.
The Belarusian Belavia airlines resumes direct flights with MinskYerevan-Minsk route starting from May 2017, press service of Armenia’s General Department of Civil Aviation told.
