Cross-border and inland highways under construction and reconstruction
RA Minister of Transport and Communication Manuk Vardanyan gave a press conference at the Government’s Press Center. The minister focused on road construction, ministry reorganization and the challenges faced in railway transportation, postal services and communications. The speaker advised that 411 km-long road sections were restored in 2009, of which 112 km to a total cost of AMD 11.5bn with budget allocations /85 km in service/, 153.15 km - with the help of the World Bank to a... more »
Control service abiding by new approaches, facing new tasks
According to RA Prime Minister’s new order, under control are the activities of heads of State agencies with a view to eliminating the failures revealed as a result of checks carried out by the Control Chamber and the Ministry of Finance. This was stated by Head of Prime Minister’s Control Service Sargis Grigoryan during a news conference held at the Government’s Press Center. The speaker presented the activities of the Prime Minister’s Control Service which... more »
State Revenue Committee representatives to be placed with taxpaying entities
The cabinet session held today in Gegharkunik marz regional center Gavar town was followed by a briefing dedicated to the government decision on the list of taxpayers set to host State Revenue Committee representatives in 2010. The briefing was presented by deputy head of State Revenue Committee Rubik Kocharyan. He advised that SRC representatives will henceforth be appointed to a number of eligible taxpayers in Armenia. The government has approved the list of those 24 taxpayers to host... more »
Growth curve set to go up
Today RA Minister of Finance Tigran Davtyan delivered a statement at the Press Center of RA Government, referred to as “The first-stage results of economic recovery efforts and future action.” The speaker stated that growth has affected all the braches of economy according to data published by the National Statistics Service. Based on these promising trends, Tigran Davtyan said that the rate of growth will be maintained in the Republic of Armenia. Economy was said to have... more »
Water management: progress is evident
Today Head of State Water Management Committee by the Ministry of Territorial Administration Andranik Andreasyan met with journalists at the press center of RA government. 3 main topics were touched upon: drinking and irrigating water-related problems, operation and maintenance of Armenia’s largest hydro-engineering facility – Arpa-Sevan tunnel. The speaker informed that an Abu-Dhabi Development Fund-supported tax program for repair of all damaged sections of the tunnel has... more »
The institute to become a center of excellence
Today the press conference of Ashot Chilingaryan, director of the Yerevan Physics Institute after A. I. Alikhanyan, was held at the Office of Government which was devoted to the development of the institute under his management. In July, 2009, a panel of experts was set up by RA Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan’s decision involving experts from Russia, France, Germany, Great Britain and the USA. According to expert opinion, keeping the priorities, the institute should expand in activities... more »
2183 residential houses to be built in the disaster zone
Today RA Minister of Urban Development Vardan Vardanyan gave a news conference at the Government’s press center. He presented the current stage of rehabilitation work and future activities in the disaster zone. The Minister stressed that 1624 families are scheduled to get housing in the disaster zone during 2010 (1056 in Gyumri, 306 in the rural communities of Lori marz, 220 in Spitak and 42 in Stepanavan). Vardan Vardanyan referred to the prescribed order of distribution as... more »
750 new jobs available in 8 companies
Today RA deputy Minister of Economy Ara Petrosyan gave a news conference at the Government’s press center. He referred to the government-initiated amendment to Republic of Armenia law on VAT in April, 2009 stipulating that 3-year deferment on VAT payments shall be made available to those companies importing goods to a total amount of AMD300mn and over. This step was undertaken in the framework of the government’s anti-crisis program, with 8 out of 9 applicants having been granted... more »
If up by some 9 cm, water in Lake Sevan will reach the level of 1960
Today RA State Water Committee Head Andranik Andreasyan gave a news conference at the Government’s press center. He referred to water intake-related problems. Each year early in summer the government defines a quota for getting irrigation water from Lake Sevan. The speaker said that the maximum amount of water drawn from Sevan is set at 170mn cubic meters. This year the government decided that the intake quota should rise up to 144.5 million cubic meters for the irrigation season of... 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 »
