Armenian Premier closely follows local media reportsOctober 29, 2009 - 19:33 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - During an October 29 Government session, Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan informed participants about MP Victor Dallakyan's public statement on state officials' being engaged in money laundering. "We too, must make a public response," he said, adding that responsibility for such step falls on the lot of Central Bank and RA General Prosecutor's Office.Prosecutor General Aghvan Hovsepyan noted in turn that the outcomes of law enforcement agencies and banking system's anti-money laundering operations had been submitted in a board session a few days back. MANIVAL experts did not classify Armenia among states under strict observation and positively assessed the country's steps towards combating money laundering. 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 | Russia clarifying reports on Baku’s alleged arms supply to Ukraine Russia says is carefully working to verify reports about alleged arms supplies from Azerbaijan to Ukraine Russia warns Armenia against “falling into West’s trap” Zakharova maintained, however, that anything that will benefit the people of Armenia can only be welcomed. CSTO: Armenia has not participated in secretariat’s work recently Recently Armenia has not participated in the work of the secretariat of the CSTO, Imangali Tasmagambetov said. Meeting with U.S., EU not against third parties, says Armenia The meeting scheduled for April 5 is dedicated to strengthening of the Armenia-EU-US cooperation, Yerevan added. |