Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan received Mohamed AlZaabi, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United Arab Emirates to the Republic of Armenia, who is completing his diplomatic mission in our country. The Prime Minister said the Ambassador’s tenure was marked by effective cooperation between Armenia and the UAE. Nikol Pashinyan stressed that the Armenian government is interested in UAE’s reform experience. “We hope that in the near future Armenia will...
Accompanied by Minister of Defense David Tonoyan and Minister of High-Tech Industry Hakob Arshakyan, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan visited the newly-commissioned Kalashnikov sub-machine-gun factory in Armenia. The Prime Minister toured the AK-103 assembly shop, created on the basis of Neutron CJSC. RF Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Armenia Sergey Kopyrkin attended the Premier during the factory tour. The Prime Minister was told that 50 thousand sub-machine-guns will...
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan held a working meeting with the leadership of the Ministry of Defense and the Armed Forces, headed by Defense Minister David Tonoyan and Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces, Lieutenant General Onik Gasparyan. Development scenarios in our region’s military-political situation and the plan for the use of the Armed Forces were discussed during the meeting. Addressing those present, the Prime Minister said: “Today’s discussion is...
Today, the Anticorruption Policy Council met in the Office of Government, chaired by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan. A report on Armenia’s anticorruption strategy and on implementation of the planned activities in 2019 and in the 1st quarter of 2020 was presented as part of the 2019-2020 Action Plan. Minister of Justice Rustam Badasyan advised that the Report was published on the official website of the Ministry as early as in February, 2020. He noted that out of the planned 22...
A Cabinet meeting was held today, chaired by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan. The Government approved a state support program to bolster winter wheat production in the Republic of Armenia. The program seeks to ease access to high-quality seeds by partially subsidizing or compensating the cost of duly certified winter wheat seeds for those farmers who own 2-20 hectares of wheat plantations in Shirak, Syunik, Gegharkunik, Lori, Aragatsotn, Tavush and Kotayk marzes. The Prime Minister...
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan today received outgoing Head of the Council of Europe Office in Yerevan Natalia Voutova. Highly appreciative of the cooperation with N. Voutova and the Council of Europe, the Prime Minister noted that the Council of Europe is among Armenia’s most important partners on the way to developing and strengthening democracy in our country. “Armenia finds itself at an active stage of democratic reforms and we are determined to advance the agenda...
