5 political parties and 4 alliances, taking part in the upcoming parliamentary elections on April 2, have filled in declarations of property and incomes, which are available on the official website of Central Electoral Commission (CEC).
Prime Minister of Armenia Karen Karapetyan gave an interview to Reuters. “Armenia is ready to take such steps, which will result in cutting state spending, obstacles for private sector investments will be eliminated, in order for the country’s economy to be on a stable basis next year,” the PM said.
“I can’t state what results will current efforts by the Co-Chairs have. I can surely state that success will be very local, global agreements aren’t anticipated in this conflict, as interests of parties to the conflict, external players haven’t considerably changed throughout recent years.”
This structure, which is responsible for international cooperation, promotes and supports activities of French enterprises and through the meetings such as this one creates opportunities for the companies to familiarize with and create conditions for the implementation of their programs.
Taxes and fees amounting AMD 80.28 billion have been collected from economy in the period of the first month of the year.
10 days ago National Statistical Service of Armenia issued initial macroeconomic indices for January 2017, pursuant which Armenia’s economic activity growth comprised 6.5% compared with previous January.
Philip Morris International representatives met with Armenia’s Minister of Economic Development and Investments Suren Karayan to discuss the further cooperation on March 1, press service of the Ministry told.
“We don’t have concrete results yet and will inform about the talks soon. During the meeting with the Armenian community, the Prime Minister said that there will be an alternative to Upper Lars, and let’s not focus only the Abkhazian railway or a road through Ossetia.”
“We have touched upon increase of volumes as a result of tariff reduction, and not as a fact,” the PM said, enumerating the 4 factors he mentioned: improvement of gas transition, reduction of interest rates of service of the 2017 loan, reduction of our own expenditures, market response of a lower price.
“Through a successful war Azerbaijan may reach a few purposes. First, Azerbaijanis’ discontent due to high prices and anticipated income will decrease. This is a proven method, e.g. almost after the shift to “free float” regime of manat in January 2016 the so-called “bread protests” have been launched in different regions of Azerbaijan against rise in price. After the 2016 April War Aliyev’s rating sharply rose.”
