The Prime Minister visits a Children’s Day-dedicated exposition
Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan visited the opening of a International Children’s Day-dedicated exposition at the Armenian Popular Arts Museum. Co-hosted by the Ministry of Culture, the Armenian Popular Arts Museum, the Armenian Painters’ Union of the World, the Araratian Patriarchal Diocese and Armentel CJSC, the exposition is held under the high patronage of Armenia’s Prime Minister. Tigran Sargsyan walked round the stands getting acquainted with the wide range of... more »
Challenges and responses discussed at the ITDSC sitting
The Information Technology Development Support Council met at the Office of Government, chaired by Council Chair, RA Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan. Before proceeding to the agenda, the meeting reviewed the implementation status of previous sittings’ assignments. Council members were reported on the pace of preparations for the ArmTech-2010. They were introduced to the essence of the concept note on formation of e-society in Armenia. The Prime Minister emphasized that a... more »
www.gov.am and www.e-gov.am websites presented
Head of Republic of Armenia Government Staff David Sargsyan gave a news conference to present the RA government’s renovated www.gov.am and newly launched www.e-gov.am websites. David Sargsyan noted that there were two reasons behind the renovation of www.gov.am website: to have a dynamic site and achieve maximum transparency. Another improvement was the change in the design of the website: instead of the former red background the site is made out in orange which symbolizes one of the... more »
Business development conditions being improved
Chaired by Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan, the Government held a regular session at the Office of Government. The Government invalidated two previous decisions making it possible for different organizations and individual businessmen to get their taxpayer registration numbers through the RA State Register in parallel to the process of registration. To this end, the tax authority has allowed online access to its automated data bases. Thereby, any taxpayer will be registered and granted a... more »
Mining sector development emphasized at a meeting with the World Bank delegation
Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan received a WB delegation led by South Caucasus Leading Economist Pedro Rodriguez. The meeting was attended by head of the World Bank Yerevan office Aristomene Varudakis. The parties have discussed details of present and future cooperation between the Government of the Republic of Armenia and the World Bank. In particular, mining sector development was prioritized during the meeting. The need for having improved legislation on the use of subsoil was... more »
Developed gardening to help generate new jobs
Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan paid a working visit to Tavush marz to get acquainted with the course of implementation of Tamara Fruit JSC-initiated organic gardens’ project. Tamara Fruit is one of those private companies having been subsidized to the amount of AMD 300mn under the government’s anti-crisis program thanks to the Operative Staff. AMD 170mn has been drawn from this sum which is meant to finance construction of organic gardens in Armenia. The project seeks to... more »
The program of Hrant Matevosyan’s 75th anniversary-dedicated actions discussed
The jubilee commission on preparation of Hrant Matevosyan’s 75th anniversary-dedicated actions met at the Office of Government, chaired by Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan. The commission discussed the course of implementation of Hrant Matevosyan’s 75th birth anniversary-dedicated program of actions. Account taken of those proposals made at the meeting, the Prime Minister pointed out that additional events will have to be included in the program.
In accordance with RA Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan’s decree, Karine Minasyan was relieved of the office of First Deputy Head of RA State Revenue Committee by the Government. Under another decree signed by the Prime Minister, Karine Minasyan was appointed to be RA First Deputy Minister of Economy.
Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan’s statement at presentation of the annual report on Republic of Armenia FY2009 State budget performance
Honorable National Assembly Chairman, Dear Mr. Minasyan, Dear Colleagues, As stated above, I shall try to assess the outcome of those actions implemented during the difficult year of 2009. Later on my colleagues will give details of 2009 State budget performance indicators and a summary description of relevant budget processes. Our financial and economic systems underwent a stability test in 2009. The global financial and economic crisis caused us to resort to non-standard... more »
CIS Heads of Government Council met in a regular session
Attended by RA Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan-led government delegation, the CIS Heads of Government Council met in a regular session at St Petersburg’s Constantinowski Palace. The agenda comprised over twenty draft papers on the furtherance of cooperation in the fields of economy, humanitarian assistance and security. All the drafts have been discussed and approved. A primary focus was placed on the economic block of interaction within the CIS framework. The heads of government... more »
