Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan held a consultative meeting to discuss the agenda and the concept of reforms in Armenia’s police force. Opening the meeting, Prime Minister Pashinyan said: “In general, the police reform has been on our agenda since the first day of our government, and this is one of the most important issues at the moment. It should be noted that ever since the 2018 non-violent velvet popular revolution in Armenia, the police has lived up to the tasks set...
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan today received a delegations led by Foreign Minister of the Kingdom of the Netherlands Stef Blok who is in Armenia on official visit. Welcoming Stef Blok to Armenia, Nikol Pashinyan expressed confidence that his visit may impart fresh impetus to the development and expansion of relations between our two countries. Stressing the importance of high-level visits, the Prime Minister advised that he is due to pay an official visit to the Netherlands later this...
A Cabinet meeting was held today, chaired by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan. The Government decided to streamline the process of payment of family allowances, welfare benefits and lump-sum assistance in 2020. The decision suggests preserving the amount of benefits available in 2020, inclusive of child allowances by lowering the vulnerability threshold to 28.00 instead of 30.00. In this regard, Prime Minister Pashinyan noted that a lower threshold implies that those households are given...
Chaired by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, a consultative meeting was held in the Office of Government with the participation of Marz Governors to discuss current problems and 2020 activities. Addressing the meeting, Prime Minister Pashinyan noted that 2020 is the right time to address more targeted issues of territorial development. “To my mind, we rather identified than found out the formula we should use in implementing territorial development. Based on the results of...
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan held another consultation to discuss the programs and activities to be implemented by the Prime Minister’s Office as part of the 2020 budget exercise. The meeting specifically referred to Civil Service Office’s scheduled activities. The Premier was briefed on the reforms being implemented in the field of civil service, the ongoing efforts aimed at enhancing civil servants’ professional skills and improving the retraining system, as a whole....
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan today visited the Center for Agribusiness and Rural Development (CARD) Foundation. The CARD manager briefed the Premier on CARD’s ongoing activities. Later on a consultation was held to discuss the programs implemented by the Foundation, which is comprised of 6 organizations specialized in agriculture and 19 centers of agricultural services. CARD is engaged in agricultural development programs, which mainly focus on livestock, milk production and...
