The European Union is launching a grant program worth 1.5 million euros designed to strengthen the capacity of Armenian civil society, the head of the EU Delegation to Armenia, Piotr Switalski, told journalists on Monday.
Presenting the steps taken, the PM said Armenia-Georgia-Russia trilateral talks were held aimed at reducing the tariffs for the cargo transportation at abovementioned routes.
In Arabkir the index comprised AMD 357 450, and in Kanaker-Zeytun—AMD 280 500. In Davitashen average market price per 1m2 comprises AMD 277 thousand, in Avan—AMD 261 thousand, Shengavit—AMD 256 thousand, Nor Nork—AMD 254 300, Erebuni—AMD 249 600, and in Ajapnyak—AMD 249 850.
Armenia’s state debt as of February 2017 comprised AMD 2 trillion 901.3 billion or USD 5 billion 961.2 million. Compared with the beginning of the year Armenia’s state debt has grown by USD 25.7 billion, from which: government’s external debt in USD expression almost hasn’t changed, it remained within USD 4.3 billion.
“For instance, the World Bank, the European Investment Bank, Asian Development Bank, provide loans, while we provide grants,” he said.
Central Electoral Commission (CEC) of Armenia has calculated preliminary results of parliamentary elections held on April 2 based on data received from all 2009 polling stations.
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.
