Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan called a consultative meeting to discuss the draft law on higher education and science and the proposed amendments. The Prime Minister stressed that the aforementioned draft law is important and principled: “Why do we have to amend the law? We need it first of all because it seems to be obvious that we are facing serious problems in the system of education. We must admit that our educational system does not guarantee the development of our country,...
Chaired by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, the Defense Ministry Board met today at Ministry of Defense Headquarters. The meeting was attended by Minister of Defense of the Artsakh Republic, Defense Army Commander Lieutenant-General Karen Abrahamyan. The Board summed up the results of the joint action program of the Armed Forces of Armenia and Artsakh for the current year, as well as the measures planned for 2020 and for the medium term.
An extraordinary Security Council meeting was held, chaired by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan. “We are actually holding an extraordinary session, but this is due to the fact that the agenda of previous meetings was too busy, and we postponed some items to discuss them at today’s meeting,” Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan noted. The extraordinary meeting agenda featured a number of security-related issues.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan hosted today Republic of Kazakhstan Senate Speaker Dariga Nazarbayeva. Welcoming Dariga Nazarbayeva’s visit, the Prime Minister said the recently activated top-level contacts are an evidence of the ongoing high-level dialogue. The Premier stressed that Armenia is keen to deepen relations with Kazakhstan on both bilateral and multilateral platforms. Nikol Pashinyan highlighted the cooperation within international organizations, such as the EAEU and the...
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan held a consultative meeting on the digital agenda of the Republic of Armenia and the vision for its implementation. Opening the meeting, Nikol Pashinyan noted that digitalization is one of the most important tasks set before the Government: “Digitalization is by and large a key component in our citizens’ living standards and in the quality of public services, as well as the most important indicator of statistics and the quality of statistics, in...
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan held a consultation to discuss the report on Armenia State Interest Fund (ANIF) activities and the Fund’s future plans. The Prime Minister was briefed on ANIF’s budget performance and expenditures, attracted investments, progress in the implementation of strategic tasks and specific investment programs. Work is underway with investors on specific projects in the fields of renewable energy, construction, light and food industry, agriculture,...