As mentioned in the report, advancement by 5 ranks has mainly been recorded on account of recalculation, conditioned by change of methodologies and adding by one economy—Somalia. Besides technical reasons, Armenia has also facilitated doing business in the two fields mentioned in the report—loan allocation and contract enforcement.
“Unfortunately, years later NK issue is more probable to be settled militarily. Both the Armenian and Azerbaijani sides participated in negotiations, in fact, not being ready for the promised concessions. It’s another issue why the sides agreed on this negotiation format.”
17 years ago—on October 27, as a result of the terror act in the Armenian National Assembly, head of executive power Vazgen Sargsyan, head of Parliament Karen Demirchyan, Ministers, MPs have been shot to death. 8 top officials. They’ve been killed as a result of villainy, committed by murderers, qualified as “a group of romantic people.”
Armenian soldier Gurgen Ayvazyan, 1996, received fatal injuries in the north-eastern direction of the contact line at about 17:00 as a result of the ceasefire violation by Azerbaijani forces.
“Risk of default increases, as Armenia failed to formulate a stronger miscellaneous economy to better confront external shocks. Moreover, Armenia’s exports are more, mostly metal and agricultural goods.”
During the meetings, the sides confirmed that the situation on the ground remains relatively calm. The Co-Chairs underscored that respect for the ceasefire provides a critical foundation for ongoing negotiations, and stressed the importance of fully implementing decisions taken in Vienna and St. Petersburg.
“Together with the co-chairs, the U.S. is ready to move forward towards the settlement through negotiations. If not now, then when? There are ideas, proposals on the table, and we can work around them. What do we want? We want to see political will by the presidents, I’m sure that through the political will we can have progress in the settlement process,” Warlick said.
James Warlick informed that the first stop of their visit was Baku, where they met Azerbaijani president and the FM, then headed for NK, where they met the de facto authorities, and arrived in Yerevan through Kelbajar today, for which Ambassador Warlick is ready. In his words, the co-chairs are waiting for their meeting with Armenian president Serzh Sargsyan, new Defense Minister, as well as FM.
“We’ll be able to agree greater part of the texts within these discussions,” Garegin Melkonyan said. The Deputy Minister also said that the document includes more than 10 fields—transparency, issues related to goods, trade, customs issues, trade technical hindrances—certification, sanitary, mental ability protection and other issues, moreover, the Armenian side anticipates to include the issue of investments as well.
“It’s symbolic, that the events week was launched with the meeting, devoted to business development. SMEs provide the majority of employees, thus, economic opportunities provided by SMEs should also be highlighted.”
