Prime Ministers of Armenia and Georgia Karen Karapetyan and Giorgi Kvirikashvili agreed on the issue of finding an alternative route to Upper Lars, Gruzia Online reported. “If you are interested whether there will be an alternative to Lars, I can assure you that yes, there will be.
“I think it will be signed in near future”, he said. “Armenia’s stance has always been that we must work both with the EU and the Eurasian Economic Union. We must not contradict these two vectors.”
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“The year has just started, and I can say, upon our anticipations we’ll record at least 6-7% industrial growth by the end of the year, and in average we’ll record 20-30% export growth,” Suren Karayan, Minister of Economic Development and Investments, told reporters today after the Cabinet meeting.
Today’s Cabinet meeting PM Karen Karapetyan started with traditional instructions. The PM commented on the irrigation water loss problem which results from water release from Sevan Lake. The PM said every year water is released from the Sevan Lake for irrigation, but water losses occur during that process and this issue must be solved.
First data of 2017 are already known: National Statistical Service of Armenia issued initial macroeconomic indices for January 2017.
“Everything depends on Azerbaijan’s internal condition. It’s known that the so-called “Karabakh issue” is a means to divert Azerbaijanis from economic and social issues. Oil trough is being failed, and mid-clan struggle is increasing. All this, of course, causes concerns.”
“Organizing all this under war conditions isn’t easy, on account of the fact that both diplomatic and political work is necessary to record such results under the conditions of military activation on the contact line.”
“Currently we have discussed two energy corridors with Iran’s Energy Minister—one of them is Russia-Georgia-Armenia-Iran. Currently feasibility study is being developed, which will be ready in the second half of ongoing year,” Novak said.
The Armenian economic activity index for January 2017 surpassed the index of the same period of the previous year by 6.5%. The National Statistical Service of the Republic of Armenia has introduced the current-operative preliminary main macro-economic indicators characterizing the socio-economic situation of Armenia.
