“Businesses shouldn’t be obstructed’’ by corrupt officials seeking payments for administrative decisions or by dominant rivals using political ties to restrict competition, said Karapetyan, a former mayor of Yerevan who took office after returning from Russia, where he worked in Moscow since 2012 for a subsidiary of Gazprom PJSC, the world’s largest natural-gas exporter. “We will create an even, competitive, level playing field.’’
“The term luxury isn’t clear, it’s not definite what is luxury, and what is not. Currently we work on property tax and we will introduce in the forthcoming months. It refers to the raising of the tax,” the Deputy PM said.
“Compulsory principle may be a subject of discussion. Indeed, it can’t be implemented coercively. Those making such a proposal maybe intend to justify voting against. It was interesting to have against votes during such a proposal. There is no need to justify anyone, our public is gracious, it’ll forgive,” V.Baghdasaryan said, adding God forbid, if we will need that.
” First, I think Trump administration is going to be vastly more focused on domestic affairs, than on foreign policy. I also think that what we’ve seen so far suggests that Mr. Trump even more than Mr. Obama is someone who believes that the world is so organized around various powers and that the U.S. should primarily deal with the major powers of the world, rather than with the lesser powers.”
On November 17, at 21:50, the body of gunner Ivan Hayrapetyan was discovered in a checkpoint building of the rifle battalion.
“General tactical line will remain unchanged towards the South Caucasus, including regional issues, as well as in case of Ukraine and the EU. The newly elected president Donald Trump directly stated that they need powerful America, before which its partners should be accountable for each dollar. To be simpler, nobody is going to “feed” anyone for no reason.”
“It’s crime, when the state uses force towards its own citizens. And the issue is that the citizens should fight against use of violence by the state, and not make violence a norm of relations between the authorities and the opposition, the state and the society.”
“After 2-3 more stages we’ll finalize the negotiations, I don’t consider that more will be required. As soon as we finalize the negotiations, Armenia will be ready to sign the agreement. The EU will need the process of internal accord. We are sure, that the process will be speedy and the EU will be ready to sign, and we’ll sign that framework agreement.”
“I think, there is no need, since the military base has all opportunities for including the required elements. Thus, I think that one military base is enough in small Armenia, we just need to fill it with military capacity,” the President said.
“The logic is very simple: after the constitutional reforms the role of party figures will increase in politics. If you want to do politics, you should be a member to this or that political party. It is very important that our Defense Minister Vigen Sargsyan has decided to join the party. He is a decent, honest, patriotic and professional political figure,” Sharmazanov said.
