Attended by several businessmen - members of the presidium of the Armenian union of industrialists and businessmen (employers), as well as members of the prime minister-led supreme council on introduction of a new culture in revenue administration (SCINCRA), a meeting was held at the Office of Government to discuss progress in tax reform and a public administration-related agenda. To begin with, Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan thanked businessmen for this initiative and went on to... more »
RA Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan received U.S. Deputy Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Employment David Kramer. At the meeting with the head of the Armenian government, he said the purpose of his current visit was to convey the message of the U.S. Embassy and other partners reaffirming that the United States is Armenia ' s partner and supporter. According to Mr. Kramer, Armenia-United States relations may improve considerably if our country abides by the path of... more »
RA Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan received Head of the Statistics Service of Italy Luigi Biggeri and Director of the Office of International Cooperation of the Statistics Service of Italy Claudia Cingolani. The guests said the purpose of their visit was providing Armenia with legislative harmonization-related technical assistance in the area of data processing and statistics confidentiality. The Prime Minister noted the importance of the ongoing cooperation between the statistics... more »
By RA Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan' s decision, Karen Matevosyan was relieved of the post of deputy head of RA State Customs Committee by the Government. In accordance with another decision signed by the Prime Minister, Arthur Afrikyan has been appointed to be deputy head of RA State Customs Committee by the Government.
RA government commission on coordination of welfare programs met, chaired by commission chairman Simon Ter-Simonyan. The commission discussed 14 charitable programs. In particular, there have been considered and approved: a "Hayastan" All-Armenian Fund-implemented program entitled "Provision of amenities to the computer class of school № 29 in the town of Gyumri of Shirak marz of the Republic Armenia", Holy See of St. Echmiadzin-carried out programs referred to as "Realization of... more »
RA Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan called a consultative meeting with the Teghut deposit development agenda. The meeting was attended by several environmental NGOs and government representatives in the person of RA ministers of nature protection, energy and natural resources, economy and officials from these agencies and the staff of government. The meeting has discussed the government ' s answers to those inquiries concerning the Teghut deposit as submitted in writing by environmental... more »
Ministerial committees on territorial development, nature protection, financial-economic, social, State and legal affairs met at the Office of Government, chaired by head of these committees, RA Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan. Established with a view to submit findings on policy development and legal act drafting matters, these committees are supposed to discuss and prepare draft decrees for the government ' s approval. In particular, today ' s meeting discussed draft resolutions on... more »
RA Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan met with AYB club and educational fund representatives. The meeting was attended by President of AYB club council of founders, member of AYB educational fund board of trustees David Yan (Russia), President of AYB club board of trustees, AYB club member Karo Sargsyan (Russia), Executive Director of AYB educational fund, AYB club member Rev. Mesrop Aramyam (Armenia), educational fund board of trustees and AYB club members from Armenia and abroad. The Prime... more »
By RA Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan' s decision, the following officials have been included in the list of members of the Supreme Council on Introduction of New Revenue Management Practices as established with the view of discussing the priorities, implementation status and outcomes of the reforms underway in the tax system of the Republic of Armenia: RA Minister of Economy N. Yeritzyan, RA Minister of Finance T. Davtyan, RA Chief Presidential Adviser on Economic Affaires V. Nercissiantz,... more »
Statement by RA Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan at Briefing with Journalists
"I am going to make 4 statements at this routine meeting with you. Twenty days ago, the President of the Republic called an extended meeting, attended by representatives of large, small and medium-size business where we discussed the key problems facing tax and customs administrations. The chief idea voiced by the President consisted in that public and private sectors have common interests in the area of entrepreneurship, namely to provide domestic businesses with the possibility of speedy... more »
