Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan received Claire Bazy Malaurie, President of the European Commission for Democracy through Law (Venice Commission). The Prime Minister noted with satisfaction that the Government of Armenia is actively cooperating with the Council of Europe and the Venice Commission, aiming to continuously improve the quality of the legislative framework necessary for the strengthening of democracy, protection of human rights and the establishment of an independent judiciary....
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan hosted the participants of the sitting of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, chaired by Vyacheslav Volodin, Chairman of the CSTO Parliamentary Assembly and Speaker of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation. President of the National Assembly of Armenia Alen Simonyan and CSTO Secretary General Stanislav Zas also took part in the meeting. Welcoming the participants of the meeting, the Prime...
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan chaired the sitting of the Police Reform Coordination Council. The preliminary model of the Ministry of Internal Affairs was discussed at the sitting. Deputy Minister of Justice Arpine Sargsyan presented the functional-structural map of the formation of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, in that context referring to the main functions, subdivisions, the schedule of discussion of the legislative package and other related issues. It was noted that the proposed...
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan chaired the first sitting of the Economic Policy Council under the Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia, held via video link. Arthur Javadyan, Chairman of the Board at the Centre for Economic Perspectives Foundation, Artak Kamalyan, Member of the Board for Industry and Agriculture of the Eurasian Economic Commission, Gurgen Aslanyan, Chairman of the Armenian Economic Association, Eugene Kandel, Professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Zareh...
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan attended the opening ceremony of the newly constructed Argavand-Shirak road in Yerevan. The event was also attended by Deputy Prime Minister Hambardzum Matevosyan, Yerevan Mayor Hrachya Sargsyan, Asian Development Bank Vice President Shixin Chen and other officials. A contract of 26 million USD was signed on July 16, 2019 between Yerevan Municipality and "Lantina Engineering Construction" (Spain) company for the construction of the road section....
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan received EU Special Representative for the South Caucasus and the Crisis in Georgia Toivo Klaar. The Prime Minister praised the Armenia-EU partnership, highly appreciating the efforts of the EU and European Council President Charles Michel for regional stability. In the context of regional peace and the peaceful settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict, Nikol Pashinyan stressed the importance of the activities of the OSCE Minsk Group Co-chairs. Toivo...