At the beginning of today’s regular Cabinet meeting, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan referred to the tragedy in Beirut. “Dear colleagues, I wish to start today’s sitting with remarks of deep sympathy and support addressed to the friendly people of Lebanon and its government in connection with the tragedy in Beirut. On behalf of the Government of the Republic of Armenia, I would like to express sincere condolences to victims’ families and wish a speedy recovery...
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan today received representatives of companies involved in textile industry. To begin with, the Prime Minister noted that the goal of the meeting is to identify the problems encountered in this area amid the current crisis and explore ways of dealing with them. “We will discuss the whole range of such assistance tools as may help us curb the crisis and return to the development path,” Nikol Pashinyan said. Minister of Economy Tigran Khachatryan...
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan chaired a consultative meeting on the proposed key changes to the draft state standard of public education and subject standards. Minister of Education, Science, Culture and Sport Arayik Harutyunyan noted that the proposed fundamental changes seek to prepare the kind of a citizen we want to have in the future. According to him, the changes are aimed at building capacity in the sphere of public education: the new schooling standards will pay more attention to...
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan held a telephone conversation with Lebanon’s President Michel Aoun. Prime Minister Pashinyan expressed his support to the friendly people of Lebanon and its President. He offered deepest condolences to the families of those slain in the devastating explosion at the port of Beirut and wished a speedy recovery to the injured. Prime Minister Pashinyan assured of the Armenian authorities’ readiness to provide emergency assistance to friendly...
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan today hosted representatives of wine and brandy making companies to discuss a set of private sector assistance mechanisms during the crisis-affected grapes harvesting season. Minister of Economy Tigran Khachatryan presented the government’s preferential credit granting facility and the relevant mechanisms. The private sector representatives made a point of being backed by the government during the procurement process and thanked the Premier for the...
During the consultative meeting, which was chaired by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, Chairman of State Revenue Committee Eduard Hovhannisyan reported back his agency’s annual performance for 2019 as part of the Government’s Program of Activities for 2019-2023. To begin with, the SRC Chairman dwelt on the work done to assess and curb the tax shadow, improve IT infrastructures, strengthen partnerships between the tax authority and taxpayers, as well as organize administrative...
