The RA Supervisory Committee (SC) has published an annual report for 2013. The report includes a lot of violations, however, some of them are new due to their nature. These new findings concern offshore companies that misspent funds of the Armenian budget.
Tigran Sargsyan is well-known as an opponent to Armenia’s membership to the Union. However, he obeyed the decision of September 3 as a statesman. In order to be successful within the Customs Union it is necessary to get rid first of all of the internal opposition. If you want to get in the water make sure you swim, if not don’t go in there. Everything is clear.
The reasons of former PM Tigran Sargsyan’s resignation are not external factors. Armen Kharazyan, expert of international relations and former deputy Ambassador of Armenia to the United States, who resides in Washington now, shared this opinion with 168 Zham and added the United States was not involved in replacing Armenian Prime-Ministers and would not need it either.
In the first year of Tigran Sargsyan’s office (2008) Armenia’s GDP was 6.8%, which was lower by several points than the planned level. In 2009 as the economy was hit by the financial crisis the slump was 14.1%, followed by slow recovery. In 2010 there was 2.2% growth, in 2011 – 4.7%, and in 2012 – 7.2%. In 2013 the planned growth was 7% (as instructed by the president) but the real growth reached 3.5% only.
Twelve years ago something happened, which seemed to be not so important at that time. According to ArmenPress, on October 23, 2002, the RA Central Bank and its counterparts from Germany, in cooperation with the UN Education, Science and Culture office in Germany, initiated a memorandum of understanding between the Lorsch Church of Germany and Geghard Church of Armenia.
The question is how it should occur and where, especially the important thing for developing countries is the question of where the money comes from. Not all countries are able to ensure the well being of their populations, feed the work force. So, be careful with such statements.
The guests did their best not to let the organizers feel bad. For example, US Ambassador John Heffern said that the demonstration of activists was a sign of civic society development and activity.
The second largest “moneylender” is Aram Harutyunyan, minister of environment. In 2012 he received 27.9 million dram interest rate from deposits. In addition to this amount, he also had 21.6 income generated as payments and 15.9 as shareholder’s interest. Generally by the end of the year he received 84.5 million dram, 8,200 dollars and 643 Euro on his account. We see that the minister of environment is wealthy and keeps his money in Euro.
There is a principle about integrity of borders, and there is also a principle of nations’ self-determination. The people of Arstakh used their right for self-determination. Personally I am for the principle of integrity of borders; however, it is not the right thing to go against facts that are reality.
The bill was initiated by parliamentarians Samvel Pharmanyan, Arman Sahakyan, Levon Martirosyan, Naira Karapetyan, Arthur Gevorgyan, Edmon Marukyan and Tachat Vardapetyan. This law will allow TV companies to advertise alcohol (more than 20%) and cigarette between 10:00p.m. and 06:00a.m.
