“If we seriously study the contract and legal system that exists among our strategic partners and within CSTO, we will see that those are gradually developing,” during a conversation with 168-Zham mentioned the defense minister Seyran Ohanyan, when answering a question whether by joining the Customs Union Armenia won’t be receiving any additional safeties and that it is a sheer vindication on part of the government to join the Union.
Yesterday in the joint session of the standing committees of the NA the bill of the RA state budget was introduced. In the coming weeks the NA will be busy discussing the state budget and indeed in the end will approve the budget.
Herbert Maurer, writer and interpreter from Austria, paid a visit to Armenia. He was in a group with Austrian jazzmen Christoff Chezh, Peter Herbert and Fabian Rucker, whose visit to Armenia was supported by the Austrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
As we informed a few days ago a few days ago the report of Policy Forum of Armenia was publicized titled Corruption in Armenia.
The conference hosted experts and high ranking officials. Prime-Minister Tigran Sargsyan was invited, too. Official statements mostly refer to the Prime-Minister’s speech and provide scarce information about the message of Daron Acemoglu, who is ethnic Armenian from current Turkey, works in the United Sates and is considered one of the ten best economists in the world.
The budget draft 2014 is still as mystical as the economic policy of the Armenian government. This is like the decision to join the Customs Union. Neither parliamentary discussions nor experts’ opinions provide substantial information about the topic.
A few days ago it was announced that an agreement was reached between the RA government and GeoTeam company (and Lidian International, 100% shareholder of the company) to place a stack washing and refining cauldron in Amulsar. In the past it was offered to place it in a 2-kilometer vicinity from Gndevaz village.
As a Prime Minister I have never been to Cyprus and couldn’t have registered a company there. This is a provable fact. And we all know that it is possible to open an offshore under anybody’s name, even dead people sometimes appear on record. I understand that there are numerous tools to vilify politicians and I don’t think this is a right goal,” stated the Prime Minister.
Yesterday a news agency of Moscow Ria Novosti organized a teleconference between Yerevan, Moscow, Astana, Kiev, during which the secretary-general of the collective security pact Nikolay Bordyuzha made a long speech.
Former Prime Minister Hrant Bagratyan has developed a bill to the parliament aimed at strengthening the national currency.
