PM Receives Head Of IMF Armenia Mission
Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan received a delegation led by Head of International Monetary Fund (IMF) Armenia Mission Mark Horton. The parties discussed the main directions of Armenia’s economic policy and the country’s economic outlook. Mark Horton briefed the Prime Minister on the pace of the Fund’s three-year-long “Extended funding” and “Extended Lending” programs and the Mission’s program performance-related findings.... more »
PM Receives Tomasz Telma
Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan welcomed IFC Regional Director for Central and Eastern Europe Tomasz Telma. “Business environment improvement and middle class formation stand high on the Government’s agenda. From this perspective, we highly value the Corporation’s efforts toward encouraging and boosting private enterprise in Armenia,” Tigran Sargsyan stated. The Prime Minister thanked Tomasz Telma for fruitful cooperation and noted that the Government will... more »
Government Set To Promote Savings-Friendly Environment
Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan attended the “20 years of independent economy in the Republic of Armenia” conference in Tsakhkadzor, co-hosted by the Student Council and the Youth Foundation of the Armenian Economics University. The Prime Minister gave a lecture entitled “Post-crisis economic policy: challenges and opportunities.” The Premier dwelt on the root causes behind the crisis, the forms it has taken and the ways out of it. The Prime Minister said a... more »
2011 Annual Report Of Vocational Training Quality Center Foundation (VTQCF) Approved
Chaired by Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan, the Vocational Training Quality Center Foundation (VTQCF) Board of Trustees met in a regular sitting at the Office of Government. The VTQCF annual report and financial statement for 2011 were discussed during the meeting. VTQCF Director Ruben Topchyan reported back the activities carried out in the period under review. He briefed the meeting on the progress in drafting a system for the monitoring of internal and external quality,... more »
PM Receives Ukraine’s State Customs Service Head
Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan received Chairman of State Customs Service of Ukraine Igor Kaletnik. “We are pleased to see that close ties of cooperation are being formed between the customs authorities of Armenia and Ukraine. We will endeavor to further develop and strengthen those relations,” Tigran Sargsyan pointed out. The head of Ukraine’s State Customs Service said his country is keen on developing relations with friendly Armenia, which is among... more »
PM Welcomes Head Of Greek Economic And Social Council
Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan received a delegation from the Economic and Social Council of Greece, headed by council head Christos Polizogopulos. “We attach great importance to the activities of the Public Council, which is a new institution in the Armenian reality and is currently making the first steps. The council is expected to play a key role in the debates over priority issues,” the Prime Minister said and added that as seen from this perspective, the council can... more »
Armenian Authorities Prepared To Hold Free And Transparent Elections
As Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan stated during a conference entitled “Toward free and transparent elections,” the Armenian authorities are determined to hold the most transparent and free elections in the newly independent country’s history. “Free and transparent elections represent a key political objective for our State. They have never been so important to our society as ahead of this election for a number of serious reasons. I can see the following... more »
Welfare Programs In Focus
A Cabinet sitting was held today, chaired by Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan. The Executive directed the Minister of Energy and Natural Resources to ensure that AMD 204,872.288 be paid to “Hayrusgasard” CJSC by the Ministry-affiliated public companies’ from the proceeds of retained profit left over after the settlement of profit tax to the State budget in partial reimbursement for the amount of gas consumed by vulnerable households in October-December, 2011.... more »
Scholarships Offered To Best University Students
Armenia’s Youth Fund has assigned scholarships to 750 best first- and second-year university students from vulnerable families who are not included in the system of free education. To this end, the government has allocated AMD 60mn to the Fund. Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan handed out today the certificates of scholarship. “This initiative of the Fund is backed by the government as we are bound in duty to make higher education accessible and encourage young people to go to... more »
Tigran Sargsyan Receives Head of French Competitive Agency
Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan received French competition authority chairman Bruno Laser. Welcoming the guest Tigran Sargsyan said: “Today, the streamlining and control of economic competition is a top priority in Armenia. In recent years, we significantly strengthened the State Commission for Protection of Economic Competition adopting laws that expanded the powers of this body. In this respect, your experience and knowledge will be extremely useful for us.” The... more »
