In his words, numerous cooperation projects may be implemented between Armenia and China’s largest Heilongjiang Province with the population of 38 million. He stated that during the meetings in RA Ministry of Economy an agreement has been reached to organize mutual visits of reporters to get more information, “Armenia is a new market for us, we need to first of all get acquainted with one other.”
“It seems to me here the mentality and psychology of our authorities should be changed. The April war, selling of Russian armaments to Azerbaijan, all these show that by unconditionally coaxing Russia does no benefit to Armenia, and Russia should be treated as a partner. Thus, the claim should be introduced to Russia, if Armenia considers itself an independent country, then it should think of its own interests.”
Hovik Abrahamyan made a rather noteworthy statement, which was an indirect confession, that growth indices, at large, mean nothing. “Unfortunately, growth of the last year and a half wasn’t accompanied with rise in well-being. We should do our best to make economic growth inclusive, so that any member of the society felt changes in his/her living standards,” he said.
In particular, Artsvik Minasyan, RA Minister of Economy, told reporters on July 15 that besides official data, Ministry of Economy also implements internal monitoring and introduced some data from the results of that monitoring. Ministry of Economy on the basis of the semester recorded 10% growth for industry, however, 8.9% growth was observed. 20% growth was anticipated for mining, however, it reduced to 18.8%.
“With this step Armenia, in fact, Armenia clearly sends a signal, that in the field of energy it won’t be satisfied only with the role of transmitting high-voltage electricity channel, but through cooperation with neighbor and friend Iran it’ll not only raise our energy security but, will considerably improve Armenia’s geopolitical positions in international arena as well.”
“This also speaks of the fact, that conditionally said, Schroeder Effect is rather effective in Europe, i.e. there are a lot of politicians, who are ready to support Russian plans, naturally, not without expectations. That’s why we have such a situation, when for any other gas, in particular, in this case we are discussing Iranian gas, it’ll be difficult to overcome that obstacle and enter European market.”
He is noteworthy by the fact that this person paid AMD 547.8 million to the state budget in the period of January-February 2016, and was the 113th in the list. To imagine what a serious tax revenue it’s in Armenia, it should be taken into consideration that much tax was also paid by “Security dream” company.
The agreement on export of Iranian natural gas to Georgia has been concluded, Iranian bureau of Azerbaijani APA Agency reported. The signed agreement will be valid for 4 months. On the whole, 40 million cubic meters of gas will be transported to Georgia from Iran.
“Gasprom Armenia” company tops the list of 1000 largest taxpayers of Armenia in the first half of 2016. The company has entered 24 billion 560 million 816.9 thousand AMD to the state budget, the data are summarized in the document published by the Armenian Tax Service.
“If we compare economy prior to EAEU, presently, seemingly the period of restoration has been launched, as at the initial phase of entrance to EAEU, due to some confusion, essential reduction was observed, then it gradually started to be restored. Presently we’re gradually restoring the positions he had, however, it’s not the time to touch upon sharp growth. It’ll be recorded in the period, when our strategy-oriented model will completely function.”
