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...
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan received representatives of the restaurant business. The problems faced in this sphere and ways to cope with them were discussed during the meeting. “Your initiative came as an opportunity for planning meetings with representatives of all economic sectors in the near future in an effort to try to understand what we can do to not only overcome the economic crisis, but also to increase the competitiveness and efficiency of specific sectors and the...
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan introduced newly appointed Minister Romanos Petrosyan to the staff of the Ministry of Environment. The Premier congratulated Mr. Petrosyan on his appointment and thanked Erik Grigoryan for his valuable efforts as Minister of Nature Protection and then as Minister of Environment. The Head of Government noted that Erik Grigoryan is one of the best specialists in the given field, and he will continue to contribute to the efforts aimed at developing the...
