“The authorities pursue their policy themselves. Can pressures totally lack? As much as we are oppressed, the more we have the right to protect our interest, i.e. go against. If we go back to the April war: who provided armaments to Azerbaijan? How Azerbaijan entitled itself to attack on Armenia? Was that the initiative by Azerbaijan alone?”
The data issued by the RA National Statistical Service (NSS) yesterday make this upsetting snapshot even more complete. Thus, NSS issued GDP data for the third quarter of 2016 (from 2011 GDP calculations are being introduced once in a quarter). In the third quarter of ongoing year Armenia’s GDP comprised AMD 1 trillion 518.3 billion.
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Vladimir Hakobyan added, “The issue of return of any territory may be object only in case of resolution of NK’s status. The settlement package enshrines the necessity of land connection between Armenia and Nagorno Karabakh. Any enclave status can’t even be touched upon.”
That Russia is pulling Armenia ever closer is upsetting to some in Azerbaijan, where some lawmakers are asking for reconsideration of their country’s close relations with Russia. Azerbaijan’s relationship with Armenia is fraught over, among other things, the frozen conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh, in which Russia has played peacemaker, and from which it has therefore sometimes been accused of benefiting.
In the period of January-September 2016 export volume from Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) member countries comprised USD 274.1 million. As compared to the same period of the previous year, export from Armenia to EEU has grown by 55.2%. This information was provided by the Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC) database.
Donald Trump is pretty sore that he’s going to lose the popular vote by as much as two percentage points. So he’s lashing out, launching baseless accusations of large-scale voter fraud to explain why he lost the popular vote even as he managed to win the electoral college.
According to Prime Minister Karen Karapetyan’s decisions, Boris Demirkhanyan and Arman Khachatryan were appointed Deputy Ministers of Transport, Communication and Information Technologies.
Main source of income for households of the Republic of Armenia is hired job. Thus, monthly nominal monetary income of households in 2015 per capita comprised AMD 52377, from which AMD 28800 (55%) comprises hired job. This information was provided by RA National Statistical Service through its report entitled “Food security and poverty 2016.”
“Of course, I don’t consider that it’s coincidence: this is the reflection of Russian big policy in the South Caucasus, generally in the Caucasus. However, let’s observe them one by one, as Armenia is an independent, sovereign country, and although I’m completely sure, that military cooperation, as well as generally policy pursued by Russia contradicts Armenia’s national interests, Armenia’s authorities have the right to make that decision.”
