“The Armenia Investment Climate Reform Project, implemented by the World Bank Group’s Trade and Competitiveness Global Practice, continues to provide advice to the government on investment policy and inspections reforms. The project is built on IFC’s previous Investment Climate Reform Project (2011-2014), which helped the government of Armenia design and adopt reforms in taxes, trade logistics, inspections, and food safety.”
We won’t make unfounded statement that National Statistical Service is busy with painting, and just consider that conscientiously, through their methodology, not forging anything, they obtained growth index. However, if economy is being activated by 4.7%, and discontent and negative expectations increase, then 4.7% has nothing to do with the reality.
According to Tarasov, Azerbaijan understands that all these “smell of kerosene,” the situation radically changes against Azerbaijan, Turkey is rolling into abyss so profoundly that Azerbaijan appeared amid Russia, Iran and sinking Turkey.
Russia continues to get isolated from the civilized world: condemning verdict towards Nadejda Savchenko more deepens the process. Azerbaijan is among those few countries, which may still extend its ties with Russia, not being afraid of further discrediting. Subject of Russia-Azerbaijan trade, naturally, will refer to interests of Armenia and NKR. Besides, economic factor may impact on the conflict as well, as a result of fall in price for oil both Russia and Azerbaijan may become more unpredictable, for the two one of the possible variants to soothe internal tension due to social-economic situation is making use of the conflict, for the purpose to change current status quo.
In my opinion, Armenia’s condition is bothering, there is no direct threat from the Islamic State, however, there is bigger threat, as, in the end, Turkey is a country neighboring to Armenia, and the latter is in problematic ties with Turkey. And if Turkey enters a rather unsafe era, it may contain big threats for Armenia.
Only Armenia is interested in termination of escalation, as for Azerbaijan, it’s a means of attaching the attention of international community and directing the issue on its preferred way. Frozen conflict is beneficiary for other parties, issue of settlement may be passed on to next generations, OSCE will imitate some development, however, in fact, nothing will change. I consider, especially when manat was collapsed together with oil prices, although they’ve gone up a bit now, however, in general, they are low, and Azerbaijan faces serious economic problems, and from domestic policy perspective foreign policy success is more crucial for Aliyev, i.e. positive dynamics in conflict settlement should be shown to Aliyev more than ever. And instead of bread, he should offer sights.
“I repeat once again that the claim by the opposition to publish election lists is only a pretext. If we repeatedly say what mechanism are offered by us, what’s the problem in this regard? We have 2014 decision by the Constitutional court on this. Do you know why they claim publication of voter lists? They consider, we may agree, and after elections they’ll say that authorities have taken an anti-Constitutional step. By that they intend to cast doubt upon stability of the Constitutional court,” V.Baghdasaryan said.
Representatives of the Armenian community in Belgium try to find out if there were Armenians in the zones of explosions, Peto Demirchian, a media relations officer for the Armenian Revolutionary Federation’s Hay Dat Committee of Europe informed “Armenpress”.
Developments following the Brussels airport blasts on March 22, are in the spotlight of the Armenian Embassy in Brussels. This was tweeted by the Armenian Foreign Ministry spokesman Tigran Balayan. “The Armenian Embassy in Brussels is following the developments. We will inform about any news, “he wrote.
“We should wait to see which direction the party will take and which steps it’ll initiate, as not established yet, it already has two functions: strong and weak. The weak factor is that party will be headed by Vartan Oskanian, who doesn’t possess peculiarities of a charismatic leader, however, it’s a weak factor as well. Depending on the activity of that party, we’ll see which one of them will dominate, as both simultaneously are available,” he said.
