On behalf of Armenia it was initialed by Deputy Foreign Minister Karen Nazaryan, First Deputy Minister of Economic Development and Investments Garegin Melkonyan. On behalf of the EU the document was initialed by Luc Devigne and Petros Sourmelis.
“The West, Azerbaijan, Belarus and Kazakhstan may draw conclusions from the statement. Karabakh provision is also crucial from the perspective that it expressed joint position of the presidents of Armenia and Russia on installation of security mechanisms. There is incorrect impression that Armenia and the US are interested in this issue,” Skakov said.
In January 2017 operations in the territory of Armenia through payment cards issued by Armenia’s trade banks and foreign banks comprised 2 million 97.9 thousand operations, total of which amounted AMD 83.4 billion. Information was provided in Annual Bulletin of the Central Bank of Armenia (CBA) for January 2017.
In his words it’s important for Russia’s authorities that Armenian policy didn’t undergo essential changes. In his words, as long as that threats lack, Russia attentively follows the developments.
Various in-depth issues bothering our country, our society are being touched upon during the debates launched at “Pressing” Club under “168 Hours” newspaper. The project is implemented in partnership with “DEPOP” Institute for Governance, “AZAD Pharma AG” ltd and “168 Hours” newspaper.
“I again want to comment on the passivity of many people. You know that aggressive minority can prevent many problems. Thus, I expect that those people, who can express a new opinion, those people, who can have a contribution, to be more active.”
“It’s been more than 25 years that Armenia declared itself an independent state, as if taking a different direction, however, Soviet approaches are being maintained towards a human.”
The requirement of mandatory audit for big companies is coming back, i.e. big companies will have to publish their reports after they are inspected by an independent auditor. This is a rather crucial event in the economic life, which remained in the shadow of pre-election turmoil.
“As you know, those people have a rather serious role in the team of the leading Republican party, we know, that Serzh Sargsyan made statements, if RPA wins in the upcoming elections, Karen Karapetyan will continue heading the Government. There are other serious actors as well, from which I’d like to state Gagik Tsarukyan, who has serious business ties with Russia.”
Thus, he believes, the Russian side will attempt to mitigate discontent of the Armenian side, by providing some “compensation”. As for Belarus, he considers currently Russia-Belarus relations are in serious crisis within EEU, against the background of which NK conflict and the issue of Armenian candidate isn’t even noticed by Belarus and won’t create obstacles.
