A Cabinet meeting was held today, chaired by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan. The Government approved the 13th action aimed at curbing the economic impact of COVID-19, which provides for assistance to disadvantaged families facing welfare problems due to the spread of coronavirus. Beneficiaries are about 85 thousand families entitled to family and social benefits as of April 2020. Assistance is provided to each family at the rate of 50% of the allowance received, 70% of that amount is...
Chaired by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, the Government continues discussing steps to deal with the socioeconomic impact of COVID-19. The Premier was first briefed on the interim results of the ongoing 12 activities. Positive dynamics can be seen in all programs: applications continue to be processed, economic and social assistance is provided on the basis of approved applications, beneficiary databases are being digitized. The Prime Minister instructed the responsible officials to...
Chaired by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, a consultation was held in the Office of Government to discuss the process of organizing graduation and entrance exams in the current situation. The Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sport presented a package of proposals for holding graduation and entrance examinations in general, specialized and higher educational institutions. The package has been developed on the basis of international experience. After an in-depth discussion, the...
Chaired by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, another consultative meeting was held in the Office of Government to discuss the anti-crisis policy aimed at mitigating the coronavirus-caused pandemic’s adverse economic impact. Addressing the meeting, Prime Minister Pashinyan said: “We have been working in this format on a daily basis for almost a month now, and our goal from the very beginning was and remains to mitigate the economic and social consequences of the coronavirus...
An extraordinary cabinet meeting was held today, chaired by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan. The Government decided to extend the state of emergency, which was declared on March 16, 2020 for 30 days from April 14 through May 14, 2020, 17:00 local time. As part of the proposed amendment, Chapter 7 of the above decision on state of emergency that dealt with media activity restrictions shall be declared invalid. The following change concerns the Compulsory Enforcement Service: during the...
Under the chairmanship of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, the Government holds daily discussions on further steps to curb the adverse consequences of COVID-19. Today’s regular meeting summed up the interim results of the monitoring of government-approved activities. It was reported on the implementation of economic and social assistance programs, proposals were presented to improve some of the proposed measures. In this context, Minister of Economy Tigran Khachatryan touched on the...
