Attended by RA President Armen Sarkissian and Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, Environment Minister Romanos Petrosyan today was sworn in at the residence of the President of the Republic of Armenia. Reading out the text of the oath, Romanos Petrosyan stated: “For the sake of achieving the national goals and strengthening our homeland, I am hereby swearing to fulfill my commitments to the people in good faith, to abide by the laws and the Constitution of the Republic of Armenia, to...
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan held a consultation to discuss a strategic program for improving tax administration and developing the State Revenue Committee. SRC Chairman Edward Hovhannisyan reported that the program features 5 strategic goals and 67 measures, aimed at improving tax and customs administration, increasing SRC system’s efficiency, easing the taxpayers’ administrative burden, combating the shadow, etc. He noted that 14 new activities were added to the...
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan today visited MoD Military Unit N. The Premier toured the army unit to get a first-hand view of the operational situation and inspect servicemen’s social and living conditions. Taking the opportunity, Nikol Pashinyan called at the local canteen, greeted the servicemen in the middle of breakfast and went through the menu which complied with newly developed nutrition-based catering system. A group of distinguished servicemen were offered incentives...
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan held a consultative meeting to discuss the Firdusi Residential District-33 construction project, which is under development. The project implies a total building area of 58 thousand square meters, 49 thousand square meters have already been alienated; 9 thousand square meters are yet to be alienated. 378 families have received compensation, and 50 families are in the process of receiving compensation. There are 7 teams strong with 60 architects working on...
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan chaired another consultation on the ongoing efforts to assist the Government of Lebanon. “We have gathered to discuss the steps to take in the aftermath of the blast in Beirut. In particular, we will explore the situation in the Armenian community in order to understand how we will coordinate the efforts of the government and various Armenian organizations and what problems we will formulate at this stage. Three planes are due to leave for Beirut, all...
A Cabinet meeting was held today, chaired by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan. Before discussing the agenda items, Nikol Pashinyan referred to the epidemiological situation in Armenia. “Dear colleagues, I would like to once again draw your attention to the fact that the epidemiological situation keeps improving in the country, but the incidence of infection is still high in absolute terms. Nevertheless, we have some confidence that the rate of disease identification has...