Armenian government to aid super small businesses in export certificationSeptember 14, 2011 - 14:24 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - The government will compensate half of export certification expenditures to super small businesses in Armenia, said the Executive Director of Small and Medium Entrepreneurship Development National Center of Armenia (SME DNC). As Tigran Harutyunyan told a September 14 news conference, if successful, the pilot program will be further expanded. According to Harutyunyan, entities with up to 10 employees, with an income of under AMD 100 mln are defined as super small entities. Over the 8 months since the launch of the initiative, 13 applications of super small businesses engaged in trade, services, production and IT activities, for the total sum of AMD 28 mln were addressed. Top stories Yerevan has dismissed Turkey’s demand to shut down the Armenian nuclear power plant as “inappropriate”. Armenia will loan 2.9 billion drams to Nagorno Karabakh (Artsakh), according to a draft government decision. The Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of Azerbaijan has “strongly condemned” Armenia’s decision. Kerobyan has said that for the first time in the history of Armenia, the volume of foreign direct investments amounted to about $1 billion. Partner news | Armenia-Azerbaijan: Experts launch work on determining coordinates Expert groups from the countries started the process of determining the coordinates based on geodetic measurements. Yerevan says did not expect CSTO in peacekeeping role Pashinyan has declared that the CSTO would be expected to come to the Armenia-Azerbaijan border as an ally of Armenia Henrikh Mkhitaryan wins Serie A title with Inter Inter Milan midfielder Henrikh Mkhitaryan admits that the team have long been imagining clinching Serie A against AC Milan. Armenia not going to war over Karabakh, says Pashinyan Armenia is not preparing to fight a war for Nagorno Karabakh, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said in an interview. |