Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan held consultations on capital expenditures to be implemented in education, energy and road construction, as well as on completing the long-standing credit-funded projects. The Prime Minister first addressed the situation with the spread of coronavirus, and then the government’s steps to implement capital programs. “Unfortunately, the coronavirus epidemic is spreading all over the world. Currently, 1 million 119 thousand cases of coronavirus...
Chaired by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, the Government continued to explore ways of addressing the COVID-19-caused socio-economic problems. Possibilities for stimulating the production of farm products and introducing new farm support tools were discussed and recommendations were made during the meeting. The Prime Minister stressed the importance of assessing the efficiency and market demand of those instruments used so far. Nikol Pashinyan instructed the Ministry of Economy to submit...
Accompanied by Minister of Defense David Tonoyan and Minister of High-Tech Industry Hakob Arshakyan, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan today visited the Engineering City of Armenia. The Premier was first introduced to new equipment, developed by Armenian researchers, after which the Head of Government inspected the process of rehabilitating artificial lung ventilation devices. Noting that they are currently working on the design of artificial respiration devices, the Armenian Engineering...
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan chaired a meeting to discuss ways of addressing pandemic-caused socio-economic problems. The Premier stressed that the Government should be quick-responsive in processing investment bids. “We need to ensure that especially in the post-crisis period investment proposals are considered at the appropriate speed and level. The task is as follows: the speed and quality of our response to investment bids should be drastically changed, and this is a vital...
Chaired by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, a meeting was held in the Government to discuss investment policy-related issues. The meeting was attended by heads and representatives of interested government departments. The Prime Minister advised that for a while now the State Control Service has been looking into the quality of government’s responsiveness to investment proposals, and today’s meeting was meant to discuss and develop incentives for boosting investment. “I...
A Cabinet meeting was held today, chaired by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan. Before proceeding to the agenda, the situation with the spread of coronavirus was discussed. Nikol Pashinyan urged citizens to be more vigilant about the threats coming from the coronavirus: “Dear compatriots, I am asking you not to take it that easy. 80 percent of patients do not even have a fever, and in fact, we do not treat them, but we keep them in isolation since they can infect other citizens if they...