“Armenia’s economic indices are obvious, and the PM himself stated on it, saying that our economy is in a hard condition. And regarding its becoming a Eurasian integration center, sincerely, I don’t imagine what it means. That formulation isn’t clear. How can Armenia become an integration center?”
“This is a very good country, and there is future here. We should change the mentality. Economic condition is rather bad, I see people in our village, who need help. There are many people in Armenia, who really need help, however, this doesn’t mean that we should say to one another that this isn’t a place to live, the authorities are not good ones, it’s not so. We should be able to appear in unity. We should change our ideology in Armenia and Diaspora.”
2.5 months prior to the deadline it became clear that the third bank, quitting Armenian banking system is Areximbank-Gazprombank Group CJSC. Initially Russian press informed that Gazprombank has sold Armenian Areximbank.
“Comprising a part of that economic space, basically, Armenia is a part of Russian political, military and economic space, and as international sanctions are being imposed, which already means that investments in Armenia are also risky.”
“We are touching upon the equal field, however, we had other precedent, when prior to the crisis Governments of both Hovik Abrahamyan and Tigran Sargsyan supported business. It’s already not about the equal field, but the Government mediated, and the practice of large loans, allocation of tax privileges extended for a rather long period.”
“While the regime is engaged in theatrical ceremonies of improving the government system and the electoral process, obviously directed not to the recovery of the state but to strengthening and perpetuating their own authority, real economic disaster, this time in disguise of sweet-sounding word “default”, threatens our country.”
“Of course, the ongoing situation is of utmost importance and is full of threat. However, we should also realize that there are more than thousands of Islamist groups today in Syria, which are separated between supporters of Assad and the Islamic State.”
“If EEU continues existing in the future as well, it’ll only gain if its members have stable economy, which should be diversified and miscellaneous.”
According to Menagarishvili, the snapshot, obtained as a result of elections, was predictable. Although, in his words, the authorities attempted to guarantee their positions also through fraud, which basically, didn’t considerably influence on election results as international observation missions reflected in their reports.
“We see the engagement of international investors as an essential component to boost Armenia’s economy. Therefore, we commit ourselves to tailoring legislative solutions for global actors, who would wish to partner with us in making our vision of Armenia as one of the most efficient, secure and profitable opening to the major markets in the region to come true.”
